The updating of the law, which whipped up and encouraged quicker runs, has brought down the chance of injury for the players, and this led to the game being seen as boring, dull, and uneventful. But, the Six Nations Championship, since the beginning, has been of solid importance and significance. The changes happening and the attraction and the pull received for football have led to all this.
Five Nations England has only won one title since 2003, and recently we can see the surfacing and emergence of a strong team of Wales. England and Scotland played the first Rugby Union International in 1871, and it was won by Scotland that year.
The inaugural Home International Championship was played in the year 1883 between England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The first series was won by England along with the Triple Crown. Up until 1893 and 1894, when Wales and Ireland won respectively, only they and Scotland had won the Championship. Wales succeeded in 1908 and 1909 and won the Grand Slams as they defeated and took down France.
1910 showed the joining of France, where they played four tournaments till then. England won the first Championship of the modern format, and Wales followed up winning the first-ever Grand Slam of the Five Nations the succeeding year. France was cast out from the tournament in 1931, and the game was suspended during the First World War.
The Six Nations Championship takes place once every season and is conducted by the international sides of France, England, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales.
Each of these six teams plays against the other five once per season along with having a home advantage every alternate season. This adds up to a total of 15 matches per Championship.
Usually, this Championship happens during February and lasts till the end of March, excluding weeks three and five.
According to Betway, few of the top Tryscorers are Louis Rees-Zammit, Anthony Watson, Stuart Hogg, Damian Penaud, Antoine Dupont, Duhan van der Merwe, Jonny May, Teddy Thomas, Darcy Graham, Gael Fickou, Liam Williams, Brice Dulin, Gabin Villere, Charles Ollivon, James Lowe, and George North.
France’s Six Nations squad is all set and ready to face Ireland this year.
For this year’s game against Ireland, they got the better of their players, and Fabien Galthie has made two changes to his team after they vanquished Italy last week.
Teddy Thomas has been benched, and Wing Damian Penaud will be starting ahead of him. Dylan Cretin has been replaced with Anthony Jelonch.
For the Sunday afternoon match taking place in Dublin, Matthieu Jalibert and Antoine Dupont remain as the trusted half-back partnership, and everyone is banking on them.
France Six Nations squad:
Forwards
Uini Atonio
Cyril Baille
Pierre Bourgarit
Camille Chat
Georges-Henri Colombe
Jean-Baptiste Gros
Mohamed Haouas
Hassane Kolingar
Julien Marchand
Killian Geraci
Bernard Le Roux
Baptiste Pesenti
Swan Rebbadj
Romain Taofifenua
Paul Willemse
Gregory Alldritt
Dylan Cretin
Francois Cros
Anthony Jelonch
Charles Ollivon
Selevasio Tolofua
Backs
Baptiste Couilloud
Antoine Dupont
Baptiste Serin
Louis Carbonel
Matthieu Jalibert
Julien Delbouis
Gael Fickou
Arthur Vincent
Damian Penaud
Donovan Taofifenua
Teddy Thomas
Gabin Villiere
Anthony Bouthier
Brice Dulin
