RBS 6 Nations

This years RBS 6 Nations nations will be an exiting one ,with the six teams Ireland,England,France,Wales,Scotland and Italy fighting for the title of the six nations winners.

Played annually, the format of the Championship is simple: each team plays every other team once, with home field advantage alternating from one year to the next. Two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss and unlike most other rugby union competitions the bonus point system is not used.

Victory in every game results in a 'Grand Slam' and back-to-back Grand Slams have been won on five occasions. Wales achieved the first one in 1908 and 1909, England have done it three times in 1913 and 1914, 1923 and 1924 and 1991 and 1992 while France did it in 1997 and 1998. England hold the record for the number of Grand Slams won with 12, followed by Wales with 11, France with nine, Scotland with three and Ireland with two.

Victory by any Home Nation over the other three Home Nations constitutes as a 'Triple Crown'. The Triple Crown has twice been won on four consecutive occasions, once by Wales between 1976 and 1979 and once by England between 1995 and 1998. England hold the record for the number of Triple Crowns won with 23, followed by Wales with 20 and Scotland and Ireland both with ten.

Although this achievement has long been a feature of the tournament, it was not until 2006 that a physical trophy, commissioned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was awarded. Meanwhile, the last-placed nation at the end of the tournament is said to have won a purely figurative Wooden Spoon.

Several individual competitions take place under the umbrella of the Six Nations tournament. The oldest is the Calcutta Cup, which has been running since 1879 and is contested annually between England and Scotland.
The Millennium Trophy has been awarded to the winner of the game between England and Ireland with the first presented in 1989, and in the same year, the Centenary Quaich was contested between Ireland and Scotland for the first time.

Since 2007, France and Italy have also contested for their own silverware - the Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy. It was created to honour the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, who helped unify Italy and was also a French military general.

Greatest Rugby players

Hi in this blog I will show you some of the greatest rugby players ever the first one is Paul O'Connell!!

Paul O'Connell is the third most capped Irish rugby player. He played 175 times for Munster and 108 times for Ireland , and also captained the Lions. His international career highlight came with 2009's Six Nations Grand Slam.


The second person I am going to tell you about is Brian O'Driscoll.

Brian has played 327 games ,he has scored 561 points and has scored 108 tries. He is the most capped player in Irish rugby history. Brian has also captain the British and Irish Lions. His father Frank O'Driscoll also played rugby for Ireland.


The last player that I am going to tell you about is possible the greatest player of all time he is the late and great Jonah Lomu.

Jonah Lomu played for the New Zealand rugby Union. He was the youngest ever all black when he played his first international match in 1994 at the age of 19 years. Jonah Lomu finished with 63 caps and scored 37 international tries. He was only 40 years old when he died in 2015. He was truly one of the greatest players of all time.