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Six Nations Rugby - 2026

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  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,138
    My hierarchy of international support is;

    England. Born here and been here most of my life.
    Wales. Welsh mother.
    Ireland. Irish wife. Who can’t understand me supporting Wales v Ireland when “Ireland has done so much for you”.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,302
    palarsehater said:
    Curb_It said:
    palarsehater said:
    Never understand English folk who follow England for football and Scotland for rugby, I’m half Scottish myself but just seems strange to me. 
    But which English people do you know that do that? Surely they must have Scottish heritage to support another nationality?

    I don’t understand English people that support Rangers… I think that’s weird when the Scots allegedly hate the English.
    Rangers consider themselves British, not Scottish. You’ll find most Rangers fans don’t actively watch the Scotland national team.


    Ive said this before back in the day. I sat next to some Rangers fans in the middle of the night when I was living in Hong Kong, the night Becks got sent off in 98. They were friends of mine, Glaswegians . Their behaviour annoyed the shit out of every England fan there. 

    They were proper Scots, Rangers fans and they weren’t supporting England. I don’t think you can say most Rangers fans don’t support Scotland. I’d be surprised. 

  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,799
    I would say a lot of Rangers fans obviously support Scotland but there will be significant number who support England.

    There was info released a few years ago that showed Rangers fans had the largest % of Scotland Supporters' Club members. Not sure if it's changed since though.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,372
    Curb_It said:
    palarsehater said:
    Curb_It said:
    palarsehater said:
    Never understand English folk who follow England for football and Scotland for rugby, I’m half Scottish myself but just seems strange to me. 
    But which English people do you know that do that? Surely they must have Scottish heritage to support another nationality?

    I don’t understand English people that support Rangers… I think that’s weird when the Scots allegedly hate the English.
    Rangers consider themselves British, not Scottish. You’ll find most Rangers fans don’t actively watch the Scotland national team.


    Ive said this before back in the day. I sat next to some Rangers fans in the middle of the night when I was living in Hong Kong, the night Becks got sent off in 98. They were friends of mine, Glaswegians . Their behaviour annoyed the shit out of every England fan there. 

    They were proper Scots, Rangers fans and they weren’t supporting England. I don’t think you can say most Rangers fans don’t support Scotland. I’d be surprised. 

    my md and 3 engineers are all rangers fans, that's all the rangers fans I know and they all couldn't give a flying about the Scotland national team, that's what I based my assumption on. 

    your right i dont know every rangers fan to ask. 

  • Chaz Hill
    Chaz Hill Posts: 5,234
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    I would say a lot of Rangers fans obviously support Scotland but there will be significant number who support England.

    There was info released a few years ago that showed Rangers fans had the largest % of Scotland Supporters' Club members. Not sure if it's changed since though.
    Most of the Celtic fans probably support Ireland rather than Scotland  ;)
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,608
    edited February 17
    Chaz Hill said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    I would say a lot of Rangers fans obviously support Scotland but there will be significant number who support England.

    There was info released a few years ago that showed Rangers fans had the largest % of Scotland Supporters' Club members. Not sure if it's changed since though.
    Most of the Celtic fans probably support Ireland rather than Scotland  ;)
    Many absolutely do. I have family who are some of them. A number of years back I was in a Celtic pub in Glasgow when there were Ireland and Scotland games on different channels at the same time. They watched the Ireland game and had absolutely no interest in the Scottish one. They even had two TV's capable of showing both games but both had Ireland on. Bizarre.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,621
    edited February 22
    A good performance from the boys in green, shame that their first game was away to France, had it been later in the tournament, we might have given them a game.
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,010
    Afternoon Delight said:
    So is it effectively between England and France now?
    erm
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,824
    Ireland played well but England, once again, were poor.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,974
    There are some ludicrous sweeping generalisations on this thread. Real life’s a bit more complicated. 

    Great results today for Ireland and Scotland. 

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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,188
    George Ford had another poor game. Two penalties kicked dead, lots of poor decision making and if we ate going to kick we need to have players who are going to win the ball in the air sometimes
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,621
    EugenesAxe said:
    Afternoon Delight said:
    So is it effectively between England and France now?
    erm
    Probably not the best thing to say, when you’ve just beaten Wales, who haven’t won a 6 nations game in years.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,718
    As good as Ireland were good…..we were equally pathetic.
    Two games running now, our mistakes have been statistically appalling….particularly handling.🥺
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,900
    I’m still smiling 😊 
    Especially after Robert and Stuart played so well.
    A very happy Ulster girl 💚

    Still can’t see anyone beating France 🙄
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,010
    guinnessaddick said:
    EugenesAxe said:
    Afternoon Delight said:
    So is it effectively between England and France now?
    erm
    Probably not the best thing to say, when you’ve just beaten Wales, who haven’t won a 6 nations game in years.
    Whatever they'd rolled in must have rubbed off on England
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,621


    The trophy has been involved in a fire in a vehicle in Ireland, sure it’s grand and will clean up.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,637
    edited March 4
    Team for Italy (England that is) has many changes from the side that surrendered to The Scots and the Irish
    Borthwick has selected a very attacking set of backs. BUT then of course he drops Van Poortvliet, the attack minded scrum half who came on and did pretty well for the injured Mitchell against Ireland, instead we have Spencer, the Bath s/half who is better as a defensive replacement when the side are (it does happen) leading comfortably with Van P on the bench
    Muddled thinking Steve.

    Also, several forwards are lucky to stay i m o
    Itoje has been very poor this season. The much vaunted Earl, the media's darling is a powerful runner who I have yet to see actually pass the ball, and Curry are surely due for a 'rest'. Itoje is in and the powerhouse Chessum is out, Coles his replacement at lock should have been selected on the blindside at No 6 with a first cap for Fisilau, the Exeter No8 and Pollock at 7.
    Italy are much improved this season, but England will be favourites for this. Unfortunately, Borthwick has i m o lost the opportunity to experiment with his tired, stale looking forward pack as well as with the backs
    As ever .. we will see

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