NOT SO MUCH a bang. Instead the Six nations began with a creak, a rattle and groan over the weekend.
A little bit like that old lawnmower you meant to service before dumping it in a dank corner of the shed last November, Europe’s premier rugby competition has been hastily dusted off.
It’s return has left us disappointed, frustrated and angry with an experience that should have been therapeutic, not traumatic.
The people of Wales will be happy. The French and Italian’s, content. Everyone else, however, has a serious amount of work to do if they want to do anything more than make up the numbers between now and March 17th.
Yet there were still 15 players who rose above the rest and were lucky enough to achieve a much sought-after place on thescore.ie’s Six Nations team of the Week.
What are your thoughts, any glaring omissions, or idiotic inclusions here?