COLIN BOAG

Whipping boys: Italy fall to France last weekend
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I’m in danger of becoming obsessed with the Six Nations, albeit not necessarily in a good way! Last week Robert Kitson wrote in the Guardian that ditching Italy and returning to a Five Nations would be a ‘calamitous admission of collective failure’, and he mooted the idea of going to a Seven Nations in 2024.
He suggested South Africa should serve an apprenticeship by playing in Rugby Europe and then be included if they were champions, ignoring the fact that Rugby Europe was set up...