As Super Saturday approaches and with it the final reckonings of this year’s Six Nations, we whip around a tournament that for all intents and purposes is now done and dusted after four rounds with just the formalities to sort out. It’s highly unlikely that anyone is going to derail the French juggernaut on itsContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week – Six Nations Final Showdown”
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Lineout Calls of the Week – Six Nations Mid-Term Report
It’s been a fascinating opening two rounds of this year’s Six Nations, and already it’s proving to be as competitive as we thought it would. There are no nailed on certainties just yet, although Ireland do look to have taken early control of proceedings with only one genuinely challenging match left in their calendar againstContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week – Six Nations Mid-Term Report”
Lineout Calls of the Week – The Year Ahead – Part 2 – Ireland and Italy
With the Six Nations JUST around the corner, we start 2025 with a look at Ireland and Italy and what lies in store for them this year. With Ireland as back to back Six Nations Champions and their Coach temporarily stepping aside and deputising to Simon Easterby as a result of Lions Tour preparations, itContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week – The Year Ahead – Part 2 – Ireland and Italy”
Lineout Calls of the Week – International Duty Calls for the URC
While in our previous post we raved on about France’s TOP 14 as probably the premier rugby club competition on the planet, we now turn our attention to our favorite club competition and how players from its various countries are likely to influence the eagerly anticipated Autumn Nations Series. As you know, if you followContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week – International Duty Calls for the URC”
The Lineout Calls of the Week
Where to begin since we last put pen to paper? The Six Nations is over for another year, but this year’s edition is one that will definitely remain on our playlists for many years to come. Ireland emerged as the deserved Champions in the end without a Grand Slam and were pushed hard at theContinue reading “The Lineout Calls of the Week”
Lineout Calls of the Week – Six Nations Super Saturday
Is there anything else to really talk about this week in all honesty other than the penultimate end to what has been an enthralling Six Nations? This Super Saturday, as the tournament’s final weekend has come to be known, is going to be one of the most exciting in the competition’s 24-year history as aContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week – Six Nations Super Saturday”
Lineout Calls of the Week
Well, it’s Six Nations time once more and some very tasty and indeed intriguing fixtures on the table this weekend. Wales look like no slackers despite their youth and relative inexperience, but can they really take on the Irish juggernaut on their home soil at the Aviva? Then, in one of our favorite fixtures ofContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week”
Lineout Calls of the Week
With the Six Nations almost upon us, obviously, our attention is starting its seismic shift towards one of our favorite times of the year. However, despite our focus being almost completely centered on International Rugby’s oldest and perhaps most colorful and cherished tournament, the rest of the Rugby World does not act in isolation overContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week”
The Lineout Calls of the Week
As the Six Nations draws to a thundering close – let’s be honest is there anything else to really talk about? Well actually yes there is. A bunch of lads from Fiji turned the form book upside down last weekend in Lautoka and made history in one of the most enjoyable and infectiously joyous rugbyContinue reading “The Lineout Calls of the Week”
The Lineout Calls of the Week
We apologise that last week’s Calls of the Week which was a mid-term review of the Six Nations got lost in a myriad of technical problems with this site. Fortunately that seems to have been resolved as we look forward to possibly THE most intriguing Round 4 of the Six Nations in a VERY longContinue reading “The Lineout Calls of the Week”
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