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2015 RBS Six Nations General Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

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  • #952
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Rightwing wrote: »
    I know what you are saying, but I don't think winning the 6N on points difference this year would have done Eng. They ought to have put the Scots away and that was it done. They are certainly good enough to win it, but they aren't good enough to win the GS. This is the difficulty.

    I also don't think they are good enough to win the W Cup. Maybe a final appearance with luck.

    The context I believe is, Eng expect to win championships and GS. Losing the way they did was minimal

    I still can't believe you don't consider winning the championship as, well, winning. It's like you fail to understand the basics between coming 1st and 2nd.

    I think you're on your own there to be honest! :D I'd say the English fans would gladly swap their bridesmaid dresses for a wedding dress...


  • #953
    Fireball07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭Fireball07


    England
    awec wrote: »
    I missed the last two weeks of this tournament. Anyone know where I can see proper highlights? I don't mean the official 6 nations ones with no commentary and that are like 30 seconds long.

    There are full matches for the last round on youtube. Bit of a commitment but I definitely recommend watching them, the last day was intense as fcuk. I've already watched both the Ireland-Scotland game and the France-England game back again.


  • #954
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    England
    The Six Nations Youtube page has hugely improved. Official extended highlights are around 9mins. They also have anthems, MOTM interviews etc.


  • #955
    Rightwing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,101 ✭✭✭Rightwing


    .ak wrote: »
    I still can't believe you don't consider winning the championship as, well, winning. It's like you fail to understand the basics between coming 1st and 2nd.

    I think you're on your own there to be honest! :D I'd say the English fans would gladly swap their bridesmaid dresses for a wedding dress...

    Certainly not.

    Didn't some Welsh fan say on the other thread once the GS was gone he wasn't that concerned about the championship. That's the category I fall into.


  • #956
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    No offence to them, but they came third so... You know... Kinda easy for them to say. ;)

    I think most Irish fans would be disappointed at coming third, but you'll be hard pushed to find one disappointed at coming first.


  • #957
    Rightwing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,101 ✭✭✭Rightwing


    .ak wrote: »
    No offence to them, but they came third so... You know... Kinda easy for them to say. ;)

    I think most Irish fans would be disappointed at coming third, but you'll be hard pushed to find one disappointed at coming first.

    I took him at his word at any rate.

    I wouldnt have been disappointed if we came 3rd, I do think most were happier than I was at first place. It wasn't huge for me.

    The World Cup is the big one for Irl this year. I said it last time, we had a great chance to do really well, we probably even have a better chance this time round.


  • #958
    Teferi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Teferi


    "Ah I didn't want to win the competition anyway" said nobody in the history of ever.


  • #959
    [Deleted User]
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    England
    Teferi wrote: »
    "Ah I didn't want to win the competition anyway" said nobody in the history of ever.



  • #960
    Flipper22
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭Flipper22


    Teferi wrote: »
    "Ah I didn't want to win the competition anyway" said nobody in the history of ever.

    .....unless they lose


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  • #961
    Webbs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭Webbs


    .ak wrote: »
    No offence to them, but they came third so... You know... Kinda easy for them to say. ;)

    I think most Irish fans would be disappointed at coming third, but you'll be hard pushed to find one disappointed at coming first.

    As I said on the other thread and maybe its from being brought up as a kid in 70s and 80s when there was shared championships etc.
    Put another way I can tell you how many GS Wales have and remember those years in great detail. But how many championships other than that, not a clue.

    Dont get me wrong I would obviously have been pleased if Wales had won the championship. But coming 2nd or 3rd on points doesnt evoke a big reaction in me (and also all my fellow Welsh friends) am certainly not disappointed as our performances apart from 40mins were very good.


  • #962
    vienne86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,076 ✭✭✭✭vienne86


    England
    So I hear from RTE that Alex White is thinking of making the Six Nations free-to-air. That would be a good day's work IMO. I know plenty of people who have some interest in rugby, loved discussing the championship just done, but in no way would they pay to watch it. I think it would be very damaging to lose occasional fans like these.


  • #963
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    vienne86 wrote: »
    So I hear from RTE that Alex White is thinking of making the Six Nations free-to-air. That would be a good day's work IMO. I know plenty of people who have some interest in rugby, loved discussing the championship just done, but in no way would they pay to watch it. I think it would be very damaging to lose occasional fans like these.

    The IRFU will go ape**** if so. Remember a few years ago.


  • #964
    total former
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    England
    vienne86 wrote: »
    So I hear from RTE that Alex White is thinking of making the Six Nations free-to-air. That would be a good day's work IMO. I know plenty of people who have some interest in rugby, loved discussing the championship just done, but in no way would they pay to watch it. I think it would be very damaging to lose occasional fans like these.

    Election coming up obviously...


  • #965
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 54,091 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    The IRFU will go ape**** if so. Remember a few years ago.

    What happened a few years ago?


  • #966
    total former
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    England
    awec wrote: »
    What happened a few years ago?

    Eamonn Ryan threatened to make the Heineken Cup free to air. IRFU ran a big campaign against it.

    Also in the run up to an election, shockingly.


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  • #967
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 54,091 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Heineken Cup is a bit different though. Has it ever been FTA?

    I think the IRFU would walk in to a PR disaster if they tried to argue against the 6N staying on FTA TV.


  • #968
    total former
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    England
    awec wrote: »
    Heineken Cup is a bit different though. Has it ever been FTA?

    I think the IRFU would walk in to a PR disaster if they tried to argue against the 6N staying on FTA TV.

    Games involving provinces used to be on RTE, think the 06 final was the last one?

    As you say, the IRFU would be shooting themselves in the foot but the 6N needs to have the option of PPV to extract maximum value from terrestrial broadcasters.


  • #969
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    RTE had a special dispensation, somehow, for the last first few years of Sky getting the HEC.

    So the last time it was mooted whether the HEC should go back to FTA in Ireland it had probably been 10 years since it last was, maybe more even.

    If the 6N were to go to Sky/BT I think it'd be a bad move. The Ireland soccer games went that way and I'm happy to say that viewership numbers would have dipped big time, so much that the team still hasn't recovered from it being removed from alot of fans life. Obviously the team not doing so well hasn't helped either.


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