What a Six Nations it has been.
Wales, who were practically written off half way through the England game, have showed nerve, reserve and conserve to get The Triple Crown. Victories against England, Scotland, Italy and Ireland has put us in the driving seat to win the Grand Slam. This Saturday comes probably the sternest test, [...]
Finally some good sport is being shown on normal television from this weekend with the much welcomed return of the Six Nations rugby tournament on BBC One. All three games are being shown and I can't wait as apart from...
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Ciaran Fitzgerald salutes the crowd during Ireland's last Championship winning campaign. That'd be 1985 then.So, here we are approaching the final weekend of an extremely schizophrenic Six Nations. For us poor souls trying to predict scores in the compeition there is no doubt a feeling of having been put through the grinder over the past 7 weeks. Of course that unpredictability makes for a great tournament though. What surprises may the final weekend bring? Leave your predictions in the comments below this post please.Standings after round 4 (Lower is better):Tom 225PMC 227 (Closest prediction Eng -v- France Round 4, -10 Points)Jap 269Da Rossie 278The Salmon Of Knowledge 279Cahony 281Egardoo 289 (Closest prediction Italy -v- Wales Round 4, -10 Points)Dae 295Francie 296Colm 314 (Closest prediction Scotland -v- Ireland Round 4, -10 Points)Incognito 335Gib 386Barabus 436Murray 467Bull 529The Slippery Orange Ballcock 562Lorenzo 564Tom and PMcC are out in front, but now is the chance for
After their brilliant derailing of the Sweet Chariot in a game which passed off without incident, Ireland head to Murrayfield this weekend in search of a second Triple Crown in as many years. In some way, it may make up for yet another Grand Slam less campaign. But the sad fact still remains; Ireland have not won this competition since 1985.So in the absence of our regular tipping poster, who is In Fact, Ah falling down the slopes of the Alps, (he maintains it's skiing he's doing)I'm taking the reins for a week. Can you please leave your predictions for Match Weekend Four of the In Fact, Ah Six Nations Tipping Competition in the comments?!
As you are all aware, Ireland are about to embark on a Six Nation's rugby campaign generating public fervour and interest the likes of which hasn't been seen before. With so many once in a generation type players lining out in green we've never had it so good. With all that's been written in the last days and weeks it's hard to keep your feet on the ground.In order to focus some of the brute force of this mass public sporting convulsion that is about to wash over the country I'd like to give you all an opportunity to display your tipping skills. Fantasy/Shmantasy, we've all been there and done that with the soccer, and we sure don't need people from other footballing codes coming into our blog arena and telling us how to run our tipping games.So instead of Fantasy Rugby, I've got something altogether simpler and less involved. On each of the five match weekends over the course of the competition, all you've got to do is guess the scoreline in each of the three matches
The general malaise persists still since last weekend. I just hope a pitcure like the above is now branded on the players' psyche until September 21st.Lets hope the provinces can put in good performances tonight to help nudge the mood forward. The great hope of Irish propping, Darragh Hurely gets a start for Munster tonight, while Leinster have a very exciting side out also for somewhat of a grudge match against their arch nemisis Edinburgh who inflicted a humbling defeat on the Irish province earlier this year in the Heineken cup.Here are the cumulative totals after Match Weekend 2 of the In Fact, Ah Six Nations Tipping Competition [Lower Score is Better].Tom 78Dae 97Incognito 101Murray 120Barabus 121Egardoo 122Da Rossie 125Francie 127Jap 137PMC 139The Salmon Of Knowledge 146Colm 148Gib 167The Slippery Orange Ballcock 176Cahony 178Bull 182Lorenzo 217Don't forget to return next Thursday to get your predictions for Match Weekend 3 in.Also, please vote for In Fact, Ah in the Irish Blog
I think Faz may have someone else on his mind who'll need saving rather than the Queen come Saturday 5:30. I'm sure Messrs D'Arcy and O'Driscoll have a few nice 'Fáilte to Test Rugby' set-pieces up their sleeves. Well, it's almost here. Thankfully. Look at how long we've been waiting for this one!The build up to the game and the furore drummed up over God Save The Queen being played at Croke Park is truly sickening. We can put aside for a moment the fact that the Irish team's chances this tournament have undoubtedly been adversely affected by all the talk surrounding the move to Croke Park, even though that's grating enough for the rugby fans amongst us.The public discourse in the build up to the England game has yet again highlighted that it seems a large minority (I hope it's a minority!) of the public have a long way to go with leaving the unsavoury elements of our past behind almost a decade since a firm template was put in place for achieving re-unification of our isla
