RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER
AND breathe! In the blink of an eye we are 60 per cent through the 2026 Six Nations, we are coming to the end almost before we have really started. Just two rounds and six matches to go. It’s been helter-skelter with little time to absorb and savour let alone analyse and debate. Onward ever onwards. It’s like covering the Tour de France when an epic stage gives you enough stories for a month… except at 10am the next morning it all starts again and what you think is the subj…