Six Nations in a Pandemic?

Probably the poorest English performance I've had the displeasure of watching. To a man they were poor.

A team can only play as well as the opposition will let them and Scotland were just brilliant. They were really up for the challenge and thoroughly deserved their victory.

Sorry, Freddy55 but I really do have to disagree with you there  ~~ England were nowhere near that good !

seen better rugby at local level, bet they wish it had been cancelled now, what are we going to do for the next 7 weeks

Pretend to be Oirish, perhaps  

Oh, 'ecky thump  That was a classic !!  With Ireland a man light  { it's a good job the common taters kept reminding me } and me playing on CT  I must have made loads of errors on 'ere today but I hope England have recorded it and insist on it being shewn to the whole England Squad at every opportunity.

I bet Italy and Romania ( amongst others )  will shew it as a First Class demonstration of how to play and get England removed from the European scene for a decade or three 

Very poor performance by England and a very good performance from Ireland this weekend. Wales were mediocre but did get that needed result, Italy are just in a slightly lower league albeit a very young side. 

For me the difference between Ireland and England was the mentality of the players. The Irish were talking to each other constantly geeing, commiserating and encouraging each other to play for country and one another. The English just played their method game in a lame and lacklustre fashion in my opinion. Scotland too, seemed to adopt a similar mentality to the Irish and well done to them beating the old enemy!

Agree Micky, very poor indeed. 

After listening to Sam Warburton's comments about Italy not being good enough after fielding a youthful side against the French, I sincerely hope they run rings around the mediocre ancient Welsh side when they meet at round 3 in Rome! How else does he think young talent can be introduced into International rugby? Like the Welsh, by fielding one or two and bringing them into a side riddled with arthritis and off the bench for 10 minutes?!??!! Hats off to the Italians. At least they recognise their inabilities and are trying something different.

I hope, too, that Scotland build on their success at Twickenham and don't flatter to decieve, as they have so often in the past. Looking forward to seeing them against Wales next week. 

Oh this wonderful game!

To all the naysayers and knockers, who's top of the tree after the two toughest games so far. Let's keep it up, bring on the English!

I always hate to see players sent off. Yes, I understand the need to make rugby safer, particularly when we see injuries like that inflicted upon Jack Willis, (incidentally no card shown) and the call to ban the so called crocodile roll. However, I think that too much is based on the 'immediate' use of the video ref. in slowmo. For deliberate, premeditated and wilfully dangerous play the red is a must but for those other incidents where several video reruns and frame by frame inquests are inflicted on us a better solution may be a yellow card and the incident put immediately on official report by the officials much like in Rugby League. In Union too much is placed on coaches making a citing request after the game if they feel an justice or an incident has been overlooked which can lead to accusations of vindictiveness and witch hunts. In my opinion it would be better for spectators and teams to know that the powers that be will deal with appropriate punishment or acquittal in a more timely manner. Yes, Zander Fagerson's clear out was ill timed, reckless but never premeditated in my opinion, he is not a thug. He needs to modify his play but a yellow card and the knowledge of an official investigation to follow would probably make him think and this would be better for that game and the game in general.

Yup would give you that, but for me France will be No1 this year, England beat Italy but it was a mediocre performance at best and 2 tries were very suspect, not a rugby player but i always thought it was illegal to jump in the air to avoid a tackle and that is what Jonny May did, and Nigel Owens agrees Wales-Scotland great game but i think France Ireland today will be a cracker