Unpredictability is a guarantee with presence of world’s best team adding extra spice in a World Cup year
Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstockhere are dark clouds hovering over rugby at the moment. It has not been the best of times of late by any stretch of the imagination but theprovides an unbelievable opportunity to focus on the very best of our game as we pull back the curtain and welcome a wider audience to the sport.
That’s before we even get into the competition, how tight the airspace is at the top end of it and, as much as it’s an annual cliche, how this is shaping up to be the most competitive Six Nations in history. We can rejuvenate and be super-proud about what our sport is, what it can produce and celebrate the championship’s ability to expand into a wider audience. It has got me excited and none of it is manufactured, it’s just what the tournament brings.
This may be cliche number two but round one is so important because very few teams go on to win the title having lost their first match. Steve Borthwick will be aware that both Stuart Lancaster and Eddie Jones managed to beat Scotland in their first matches in charge of England and he will recognise the importance of following suit.
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