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2024 Guinness Six Nations
A look ahead: the 2014 Six Nations
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<blockquote data-quote="Crapspray" data-source="post: 611173" data-attributes="member: 58918"><p>Wales will be the team to beat in the minds of their opponents, not necessarily because of their quality. They're still the bookies favourites, albeit narrowly.</p><p></p><p>England will be desperate to get revenge for Cardiff last year. Ireland will want a repeat performance of last year (and avenge the dropping of BOD). Both sides have them at home too. France want a bounce back from two wins in eleven (That's the opposite of England's year. Just so you know. Wouldn't want you to miss that.) so they'll want to win the tournament. What better way than beating the reigning champions? Not to mention the historical precedent following Lions tours.</p><p></p><p>As an England supporter, beating Wales is probably most important. With the RWC pools and the last two years' results, for morale's sake they need to be beaten. They're the only Six Nations side to have beaten England under Lancaster, and are one of only two sides in the world England haven't beaten in the same time period. (South Africa being the other.)</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>I will (as unnatural as it feels) defend Wales against Tonga. It was their second side in a game where the referee was testing his shiny new whistle. Only 11 minutes in the first half were open play; hard to score tries in that situation. They dealt with Argentina easily enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crapspray, post: 611173, member: 58918"] Wales will be the team to beat in the minds of their opponents, not necessarily because of their quality. They're still the bookies favourites, albeit narrowly. England will be desperate to get revenge for Cardiff last year. Ireland will want a repeat performance of last year (and avenge the dropping of BOD). Both sides have them at home too. France want a bounce back from two wins in eleven (That's the opposite of England's year. Just so you know. Wouldn't want you to miss that.) so they'll want to win the tournament. What better way than beating the reigning champions? Not to mention the historical precedent following Lions tours. As an England supporter, beating Wales is probably most important. With the RWC pools and the last two years' results, for morale's sake they need to be beaten. They're the only Six Nations side to have beaten England under Lancaster, and are one of only two sides in the world England haven't beaten in the same time period. (South Africa being the other.) --- I will (as unnatural as it feels) defend Wales against Tonga. It was their second side in a game where the referee was testing his shiny new whistle. Only 11 minutes in the first half were open play; hard to score tries in that situation. They dealt with Argentina easily enough. [/QUOTE]
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