{"id":332399,"date":"2026-03-06T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/332399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:53:09","slug":"six-nations-2026-title-and-wooden-spoon-permutations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/332399\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Title and Wooden Spoon permutations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The penultimate round of the Six Nations takes place this weekend with France able to secure back-to-back titles by beating Scotland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To keep their championship hopes alive, Andy Farrell&#8217;s Ireland need a big win over Wales on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But should Ireland win without a bonus point, or lose, Les Bleus would need any sort of victory in Edinburgh to secure the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bonus-point win at Murrayfield for Fabien Galthie&#8217;s side, who have won every game with maximum points so far, is enough to claim the crown regardless of other results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If France lose but pick up at least a point, or Scotland win without a bonus point, Galthie&#8217;s side remain in control given their superior points difference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Scotland bonus-point win and nothing for the visitors would leave Gregor Townsend&#8217;s side in a position to win the title by claiming another maximum-point win in their final match against Ireland in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After missing out on a bonus point against Italy, Farrell&#8217;s side will likely need last year&#8217;s champions to lose their final two games to keep alive their hopes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France, who are chasing a first Grand Slam since 2022, host England in the final game of the tournament, while Italy travel to Cardiff to face Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The penultimate round of the Six Nations takes place this weekend with France able to secure back-to-back titles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-332399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}