Is The Six Nations Too Long?

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I can understand and empathise with a break in the six nations, at the "half way" point. But splitting 5 games over 7 week ends just takes all the momentum out of the tournament for me.

Given that the competition is so compressed geographically, I don't see the need for two rest weekends. Contrast this to the RC or RWC where the schedule is much tighter.

We could reduce the length of the season by playing over 6 week-ends. This would for instance allow British club competitions to finish a week earlier, allowing NH sides to take full strength sqauds to the SH rather than always bringing a weakened side down for parts of the tour.

You could even stagger the rest week so we get teams resting on alternate weekends, just to try and keep the interest going.

At the moment, as the super rugby fires up, it's easy to get distracted and lose interest for neutrals and I'm sure the 6N constituents want to grow their audience, not have it peter out?

GunsGerms wrote:

Cyril wrote:
Its engrained in English culture to cheat. The rugby team is no different. At times they just arent very good at it though.

Some high profile English cheats:

Nasty Nick Bateman - big brother cheat
Charles Ingram - Who wants to be a millionaire cheat
David Beckham - cheated on wife
Tom Williams & Dean Richards - bloodgate cheats
Neil Back - hand of back cheat
Johnny Wilkinson - Link
Dwain Chambers - drug cheat (one of the few to be caught)

Guns, sometimes I think you take this all a bit too seriously  

Anyway, I would like it to be consecutive weekends.

It was tongue in cheek. Surely some of the examples would have made that obvious. Nick Batemen? Anyway on a serious note there does seem to be a culture of seeing what you can get away with in professional sport in England.[/quote]

A bit rich coming from a nation whose eligibility for representing their country is... can you say yes to either of the following if so, you're in.....

You once drank a pint of Guinness?
You have seen riverdance?
your conservatory was once built by a guy called Flannery?

Eh? Wierd comment Fa. England leads the world in rugby imports. Everybody knows that. There have also been two Irish exports to South African rugby which is about the same that have represented Ireland from SA.

Irish rugby has probably had less imports than most countries.

What has that got to do with cheating anyway?

GunsGerms wrote:Eh? Wierd comment Fa. England leads the world in rugby imports. Everybody knows that. There have also been two Irish exports to South African rugby which is about the same that have represented Ireland from SA.

Irish rugby has probably had less imports than most countries.

What has that got to do with cheating anyway?

More to do with your football representation in the past with old Jack Charlton. Only a little dig Guns.

Well the man in charge at the time was English, so no surprises there.