6 Nations Super Saturday 2026 - Match commentary ... final day

I was replying to kicking form, besides I thought he had a pretty ok tournament given circumstances. I'd be pretty confidenent after a further year experience him and/or prendergast will be fine for next year, in a really big WC year.

France at home always get some very dubious calls. Unfortunately based on this 6N, the world cup will be staying in the southern hemisphere. France defense isn't good enough to live with SA or NZ.

Now English fans will know what it's like for us to be reffed by Carley or Dickson

Pollock has a lot to learn about rugby. Primarily, that's its not a movie all about him.

When we won in 2015, we beat Scotland in Edinburgh and then France denied England the title by denying them a 26 point margin of victory at the death in Twickenham. We won the title as a result.

Oh the poetic justice of Freeman and Pollock shushing the crowd with 5 minutes left and then the above offload with 1 minute left. Sweet sweet wine.

Nope was Pollock alright.

Freeman didn't act the maggot with the French crowd but is perhaps guilty of thinking they'd won it. He ran towards what was apparently an English section of the crowd and Fin Smith had to go and drag both him and Pollock away to get back in with the game.

I tend to agree that this 6ns was quality entertainment. Other than the first game with France, Ireland played well.

When Gibson Park plays well Ireland play well. And this is the problem. The game shouldn't be focused on one player. So then you have to ask why is Gibson Park so crucial to Ireland. And one could say it's because his distribution and his sniping is fast and furious. And this is all good but it's covering up a fundamental problem.

This problem is offloading and support lines. Everything goes to ground. So everything slows. Hence you need a dynamic scrum half to try and speed things up again.

So when you come up against, for example, SA then you are into a dogfight and SA will always win this.

And then you come up against France/NZ and you will be beaten because they offload so fast you are constantly defending.

So if we don't start speeding up our play using offloading and support play we will just be a bog standard team for the next world cup. And that's my issue with Andy Farrell laid bare

With JGP we have evolved to playing a French style game with 'Le Petit General' at 9. It's a change from our traditional formation where the 10 was always the orchestrator.

In all honesty it doesn't really matter. Someone has to fulfill that orchestrator role, and JGP is currently the best we have to do so. That setup has also benefitted Jack Crowley who is back playing good rugby with JGP pulling the strings. That is the major positive outcome from this 6N campaign, we have concluded on our best half back pairing.

That’s the one I don’t understand. ! . Why kick away possession with time almost up. Im sure someone with more knowledge of the game will tell me why