Six Nations Rugby Round-Up II

This year's edition of the Six Nations Rugby Tournament is shaping up to be rather interesting. In this weekend's action, France lost at home to Wales, 24 to 18, England lost in Dublin to the Irish, 19 to 13 and Gli Azzurri of Italy lost in Scotland, 18 to 10. With the French loosing at home to Wales, only Ireland and Wales have the possiblity of a "Grand Slam", or going 5-0 this year. If Ireland won the Grand Slam, it would be the first time since 1948. If Wales won the Grand Slam, it would be the first time since 1978.

Both Ireland and Wales are 3-0 in the standings, France is 2-1, Scotland 1-2 and England and Italy are both at 0-3. England, Scotland and Italy are out of the running for the trophy and only have the "wooden spoon" to avoid this year. The next games are the weekend of 12-13 March where Gli Azzurri travel to England, France travels to Ireland and Wales travels to Scotland. This years winner could come down to the game between Ireland and Wales on the 19th of March in Cardiff. Although Wales looks good, I think the winner this year will be Ireland since they have always been up there every year. Hopefully, gli Azzurri can avoid the dreaded "wooden spoon" and win at least one game. I think that England will probably clean their clocks when they travel there for the 13 of March, but maybe they can pull it out against France in Rome on the 19th. We can only hope.