Six Nations

Finn Russell is a major doubt for Scotland’s Guinness Six Nations match with France after suffering a potential head injury during a club match.

It’s not often a Scot scores a hat-trick of tries in the Six Nations Championship. It is even rarer for a Scot to score a hat-trick and find himself passing round the jelly babies on the substitutes’ bench the following week, but that was Blair Kinghorn’s fate.

Emile Ntamack is the Zelig of rugby, a ubiquitous presence at almost every big occasion that the game has hosted in a generation or more. He was there in 1994, the last time any side beat the All Blacks at Eden Park and two years later when the Heineken Cup was first presented, it was his hands that accepted it on behalf of the Toulouse side that he captained.

It is getting like a game of skittles as one Scotland player after another is knocked out of the tournament. Six of the XV who started against Italy are down, for the French match next week at least, several for the Wales and England games too.

Scotland centre Huw Jones will miss the rest of the Guinness Six Nations after suffering a knee injury against Ireland last weekend.

Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has branded referee Roman Poite’s decision not to review the tackle which injured Stuart Hogg’s shoulder in Saturday’s 22-13 defeat to Ireland at Murrayfield as “strange”.

Scotland back Stuart Hogg will miss the rest of the 2019 Guinness Six Nations championship - and may be sidelined for the remainder of the season after sustaining a shoulder injury against Ireland.

Andy Harrow looks back at Scotland’s Six Nations defeat to Ireland at Murrayfield.

Scotland will have mixed emotions after this loss to the second best side in world rugby because there wasn’t much to choose between the two teams on the day.

Magnus Bradbury could be in contention for the rest of the Guinness Six Nations to ease Scotland’s back-row problems, with the flanker set to return for Edinburgh on Friday after nearly four months out.

England head coach Eddie Jones turned his sights to the “greatest Welsh side ever” after a resounding mauling of France gave his men two wins from two Guinness Six Nations games.

“Yokohama feels like another world,” said Gregor Townsend after Saturday’s match, referring to the next time these two nations meet in the World Cup Pool A
opener in September.

A sell-out crowd made its way to Murrayfield on Saturday afternoon to see Scotland take on Ireland in the Six Nations. Here are a selection of pictures of fans making their way to the big game.

Praise can make you weak. Eddie Jones threw that comment at Ireland last week as a warning about living up to expectations.

Joe Schmidt hopes Johnny Sexton will shake off a head injury in time for Ireland’s Guinness Six Nations trip to Italy.

Wales equalled the longest unbeaten run in their 138-year Test match history as they defeated a dogged Italian side 26-15 yesterday.

Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw was unhappy with some of the decisions of referee Romain Poite, pictured, during the Guinness Six Nations defeat by Ireland at BT Murrayfield.

It was my fault, said Gregor Townsend, who put his hand up for yesterday’s loss to Ireland. The Scots looked poised at half-time to land further fire and brimstone on Joe Schmidt’s head, only to fall away badly after the break.

Scots of a nervous disposition – and despite all the free-scoring flair and the feelgood vibe around Murrayfield these days that still accounts for quite a lot of us – approached this game with some degree of apprehension.