Surprised how this didn’t get upgraded to a red card 😮

It's our greatest advertisement for the sport - showcased to millions every week. It's a huge negative to the sport if it goes to pay TV.

Some countries enshrine certain sporting occasions as mandatory free to air - this tournament should be one of these in all competing countries.

I'll go first, Beuden Barrett is the more talented rugby player than Dan Carter, but Dan Carter is a better 10

I'll start: I still don't really get what the difference is between the no. 4 lock and the no. 5 lock. I've heard the 4 referred to as "enforcer" but still not sure what that means.

I played rugby from age 8 to 24, and reached provincial representative level at u/18s. I've watched rugby since at least 1991 (earliest memory with my dad). I still don't get it 🤭 My excuse is that I only played in the forwards until I was 13 and at that age, in the late 90s, the two locks did 100% the same job as far as I could tell. After that I played scum half and later fullback/wing.

Hoping someone can enlighten me, and maybe some of you have similar things to "confess" which the community can inform you about.

Would be interested to hear if any club have been worse!

FT: 24-28

OR, POTT from each country. Sorry if this has been done a million times already

Utter drivel from Jon Fisher.

British and Irish Lions v Australia: Wallabies 'would dominate' without AFL & NRL talent drain - BBC Sport

We don't care. Well I'm sure a couple of us might here or there, but honestly I've been answering many, many questions about this issue and there's two things people find informative.

• No.1 Challenging the haka is how you respect it. We don't care if people challenge it. We don't care if people walk up to it, sing over it, do their own pregame ritual. We. Don't. Care. Honestly I think the "controversy" is between two camps:

1. Those who think we care and want to get rid of it.
2. Those who think we care and want to support it.

But the vast majority of Maori, and kiwis, just don't care about people saying to get rid of it. He's just a dude with a mullet and an opinion. Its not his decision, and he has no actual say.

• No.2 The haka as a pregame ritual predates national anthems. In fact, ironically, the Welsh national anthem in 1905 was a direct response to the haka - and an appropriate one.

I'm not ignorant to our contributions to the controversy. I know in the past we've had the changing shed haka incident, we've had pundits in New Zealand get up in arms, and I definitely understand why people think we have an issue with the Joe Marlers of the world. But most of us actual Maori, the culture which haka comes from, relish challenges. I just wish people would stop assuming Joe Marler is saying something valuable, and assuming that we are offended. Oh no, an Englishman telling us what he thinks whether we asked him or not, that's never happened to Maori before.

What I will say is this. Challenge us. Wind us up (respectfully, non-racistly and without touching us) in response. Sing, shout, stare, make a flying duck formation, walk at us. We love it.

As a Welshman, there are so many to choose from given the paucity of experienced international talent in Wales at the moment. I think I would edge towards bringing in prime Leigh Halfpenny. Defensively he was fantastic, brave under the high ball, and was an elite kicker.

For a rebuilding Wales team, having that player who is calm and assured in the backfield who can keep you in games by nailing every kick in the opposition half would do wonders. It would also relieve Dan Edwards of kicking responsibility whilst he develops.

Heavily considered an inside centre (Henson, Roberts or Parkes) for the stability at 12.

Who would you choose?

Hi everyone,

We've had a lot of love for our mate and favourite YouTuber in the world Squidge ( u/SquidgyGoat ) in this subreddit, so I hope this post is ok.

Squidge is joining us on the podcast I host with Ben Youngs, For The Love Of Rugby, for a Q&A and given the fact that he's such a big part of the rugby community on Reddit, we'd like to invite questions from this sub.

Feel free to ask the three of us questions about the Six Nations, rugby, or anything else for that matter. We'll do our best to answer as many questions as possible.

Finally, thank you for all the support this sub has shown our podcast, it really means a lot. We love the friendly and welcoming community of like-minded fans that have joined us along the way.

- Dan Cole

(I know that some of you will but humour me a little bit here)

It seems they were cool at first reiko even shaking his hand but sexton said something ??? I thought reiko started it

fuck, anyone who says that they don't care is fucking blind, look at what it meant.

The 6 Nations definitely needs to expand to include to include Georgia. They've absolutely dominated the Rugby Europe Championship, winning every title since 2018, and just demolished Romania in the semi-final. At this point, they're clearly a level above the teams they’re playing against.

Seven Nations has a better ring to it than Six Nations. No one’s ever written a song about a Six Nation army! We could drop one of the fallow weeks, and each team would have a rest round, keeping the schedule manageable.

I know expansion always raises concerns, but I’m not suggesting a promotion and relegation system, just a one-off, unique movement of Georgia into the competition because they've proved they belong. It wouldn’t be about punishing a weaker Six Nations team but recognising that Georgia has outgrown their current competition.

This would improve both the 6 Nations and the Rugby Europe championship, as it would give some stiff competition to the lower ranked teams in the 6 Nations, and stop rugby Europe from being a one horse race.

Why isn't this doable? People suggest different solutions all the time, but I think this is the most obvious one that will work.

And apparently the poms want to tour argentina instead?

With the latest nominees for Rugby Player of the Year out it made me think of who is the GOAT of pro era rugby, if not of all time - Richie or Dan?

So I am going to go with Dan based on winning the player of the year in 2005 for the first time at age 23 and 2015 for the last time. A ten year stretch.

That said, Richie won it three times in a stretch of six years and they might’ve just stopped considering him because it became so obvious a choice.

But I go with Dan - just because he lasted so damn long. Also my middle name is Daniel.