Ireland and France have truly improved their standing as Six Nations favourites after excellent triumphes within the opening spherical.
France humbled Wales in Paris on the debut. Scotland after that held off a typically spirited Italy previous to Ireland originated from behind to comfortably beat England on Saturday mid-day.
Ireland are the ruling champs, their solely loss in 2015 coming with the arms of England atTwickenham This yr, the Irish have truly at present defeated Steve Borthwick’s guys in Dublin and likewise host France, which is a giant profit of their quest for 3 Six Nations titles straight.
There is a facet of threat, nonetheless, due to head teacher Andy Farrell’s absence. Farrell has truly turned over the Irish reins, on an performing foundation, to Simon Easterby to make sure that he can focus on preparation for the 2025 British and Irish Lions scenic tour of Australia.
When are the next Six Nations fits?
There are 2 successive weekend breaks of Six Nations exercise (Jan 31-Feb 1, Feb 8-9), after {that a} week’s break, another weekend break of elements (Feb 22-23), another week-long break and after that the final 2 weekend breaks of video video games run again to again (Mar 8-9, Mar 15).
The Six Nations desk 2025
Fixtures: full timetable
(All occasions GMT)
Round one
Round 2
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Sat, Feb 8: Italy v Wales, Stadio Olimpico, 2.15 pm, ITV
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Sat, Feb 8: England v France, Twickenham, 4.45pm, ITV
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Sun, Feb 9: Scotland v Ireland, Murrayfield, 3pm, BBC
Round 3
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Sat, Feb 22: Wales v Ireland, Principality Stadium, 2.15pm, BBC
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Sat, Feb 22: England v Scotland, Twickenham, 4.45pm, ITV
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Sun, Feb 23: Italy v France, Stadio Olimpico, 3pm, ITV
Round 4
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Sat, Mar 8: Ireland v France, Aviva Stadium, 2.15 pm, ITV
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Sat, Mar 8: Scotland v Wales, Murrayfield, 4.45 pm, BBC
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Sun, Mar 9: England v Italy, Twickenham, 3pm, ITV
Round 5
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Sat, Mar 15: Italy v Ireland, Stadio Olimpico, 2.15 pm, ITV
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Sat, Mar 15: Wales v England, Principality Stadium, 4.45 pm, BBC
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Sat, Mar 15: France v Scotland, Stade de France, 8pm, ITV
What tv networks are fits on?
The BBC and ITV are as soon as extra sharing safety within the UK, with S4C providing Welsh language options. France Television is the house of the Championship for French followers. RTE and Virgin Media are as soon as once more overlaying the video video games inIreland In Italy, Sky Italia proceeds its safety of the Championship.
Radio safety of your entire champion is available on BBC Radio 5 Live.
This may but be the in 2015 that each go well with of the Six Nations is revealed on free-to-air earthbound television within the UK. The current program deal with ITV and the BBC simply goes to completion of this yr’s occasion. It is comprehended that occasion organisers are considering bids from pay-TV broadcasters like TNT Sports orSky Sports A pursue a paywall ended up being a possibility when the federal authoritiesopted not to continue to designate the Six Nations as a “crown jewel” event Concerns have truly been elevated regarding the negative impact of the Six Nations going behind the paywall might have on the game.
Are Six Nations tickets nonetheless on the market?
Tickets passed off sale in 2015. If any type of are nonetheless available, they’re up on the market by way of the host nation for every elements.
What occurred to the Six Nations brand design?
It was upgraded on the finish of in 2015 and launchedamid much mockery Supporters have truly in any other case contrasted the brand-new variation to the Mars brand design, a Looney Tunes advert and Microsoft Word Art.
What are the easiest of the newest probabilities?
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Ireland 11/8
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France evens
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England 9/2
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Scotland 12/1
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Wales 500/1
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Italy 500/1
The Six Nations groups utterly
England
Forwards: Fin Baxter, Ollie Chessum, Arthur Clark, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Chandler Cunningham-South, Ben Curry, Tom Curry, Theo Dan, Ben Earl, Ellis Genge, Joe Heyes, Ted Hill, Maro Itoje (c), Curtis Langdon, George Martin, Asher Opoku-Fordjour, Henry Pollock, Bevan Rodd, Will Stuart, Tom Willis.
Backs: Oscar Beard, Elliot Daly, Fraser Dingwall, George Ford, Tommy Freeman, Ollie Lawrence, Alex Mitchell, Cadan Murley, Raffi Quirke, Harry Randall, Tom Roebuck, Henry Slade, Ollie Sleightholme, Fin Smith, Marcus Smith, Ben Spencer, Freddie Steward.
France
Forwards: Esteban Abadie, Dorian Aldegheri, Gregory Alldritt, Uini Atonio, Hugo Auradou, Cyril Baille, Giorgi Beria, Paul Boudehent, Joshua Brennan, Georges-Henri Colombe, Francois Cros, Thibaud Flament, Marko Gazzotti, Jean-Baptiste Gros, Micka ël Guillard, Matthias Halagahu, Oscar Jegou, Maxime Lamothe, Julien Marchand, Peato Mauvaka, Emmanuel Meafou, Dany Priso, Rabah Slimani, Romain Taofif énua.
Backs: Theo Attissogbe, Pierre-Louis Barassi, Leo Barre, Nicolas Depoortere, Gael Drean, Antoine Dupont (c), Antoine Frisch, Emilien Gailleton, Matthieu Jalibert, Nolann le Garrec, Maxime Lucu, Yoram Moefana, Noah Nene, Romain Ntamack, Damien Penaud, Thomas Ramos, Killian Tixeront, Gabin Villiere.
Italy
Forwards: Lorenzo Cannone, Niccolo Cannone, Riccardo Favretto, Simone Ferrari, Danilo Fischetti, Alessandro Izekor, Dino Lamb, Michele Lamaro, Gianmarco Lucchesi, Sebastian Negri, Giacomo Nicotera, Marco Ricconi, Luca Rizzoli, Federico Ruzza, Ross Vintcent, Giosue Zilocchi, Manuel Zuliani.
Backs: Tommaso Allan, Juan Ignacio Brex, Ange Capuozzo, Matt Gallagher, Alessandro Garbisi, Paolo Garbisi, Simone Gesi, Monty Ioane, Leonardo Marin, Tommaso Menoncello, Martin Page-Relo, Jacopo Trulla, Stephen Varney.
Ireland
Forwards: Ryan Baird, Finlay Bealham, Tadhg Beirne, Jack Boyle, Thomas Clarkson, Jack Conan, Caelan Doris (c), Tadhg Furlong, Cian Healy, Iain Henderson, Rob Herring, Cormac Izuchukwu, Rónan Kelleher, Gus McCarthy, Joe McCarthy, Peter O’Mahony, Andrew Porter, Cian Prendergast, James Ryan, Dan Sheehan, Josh van der Flier.
Backs: Bundee Aki, Caolin Blade, Jack Crowley, Ciaran Frawley, Jamison Gibson-Park, Mack Hansen, Robbie Henshaw, Hugo Keenan, James Lowe, Conor Murray, Calvin Nash, Jimmy O’Brien, Jamie Osborne, Sam Prendergast, Garry Ringrose.
Scotland
Forwards: Ewan Ashman, Josh Bayliss, Jamie Bhatti, Gregor Brown, Dave Cherry, Luke Crosbie, Rory Darge (cc), Jack Dempsey, Matt Fagerson, Zander Fagerson, Grant Gilchrist, Jonny Gray, Patrick Harrison, Will Hurd, Jack Mann, D’Arcy Rae, Dylan Richardson, Jamie Ritchie, Pierre Schoeman, Rory Sutherland, Marshall Sykes.
Backs: Fergus Burke, Matt Currie, Jamie Dobie, Darcy Graham, George Horne, Rory Hutchinson, Huw Jones, Tom Jordan, Blair Kinghorn, Stafford McDowall, Finn Russell (cc), Kyle Rowe, Duhan van der Merwe, Ben White.
Wales
Forwards: Keiron Assiratti, James Botham, Elliot Dee, Taulupe Faletau, Dafydd Jenkins, Will Griff John, Evan Lloyd, Kemsley Mathias, Jac Morgan, Sam Parry, Tommy Reffell, Will Rowlands, Nicky Smith, Gareth Thomas, Freddie Thomas, Henry Thomas, Christ Tshiunza, Aaron Wainwright, Teddy Williams.
Backs: Josh Adams, Ellis Bevan, Dan Edwards, Josh Hathaway, Eddie James, Ellis Mee, Blair Murray, Joe Roberts, Tom Rogers, Ben Thomas, Nick Tompkins, Owen Watkin, Liam Williams, Rhodri Williams, Tomos Williams.
Last yr’s outcomes and standings
Ireland gained the Six Nations in 2024, defending their 2nd succeeding champion. England ended up third, but protected in opposition to Ireland from profitable the conquest with an unexpected triumph on the penultimate weekend break.
