The tournament opened with Italy shocking Scotland in Rome to put Gregor Townsend under pressure.<\/p>\n
His side then delivered an emphatic win over England at Murrayfield to end their rivals’ 12-game unbeaten run.<\/p>\n
The pressure then mounted on Borthwick as his side were outclassed by Ireland at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n
While all that was happening, France cruised past Ireland, Wales and Italy to start a narrative that anything other than a Grand Slam would be a failure.<\/p>\n
Scotland then blew away Galthie’s side, before conceding a late flurry of tries, to head into the final round with a genuine shot of a first Six Nations title.<\/p>\n
To add more drama into the mix, Italy overcame England in Rome to mount further pressure on Borthwick.<\/p>\n
Wales may have lost their opening four games, but they improved as the championship went on, producing an impressive bonus-point win over Italy to end the tournament.<\/p>\n
They finished with a third consecutive Wooden Spoon – but a first win in the championship since 2023 offered huge relief.<\/p>\n
Despite an improved display in Paris, England finished the tournament with four defeats – their worst-ever campaign.<\/p>\n
“It was one of the most captivating Six Nations in history, fitting it came down to one final moment of drama,” BBC rugby correspondent Chris Jones said.<\/p>\n
The 2015 Six Nations has been regarded as the greatest tournament for entertainment because of the three-team Super Saturday title race.<\/p>\n
It similarly went right down to the wire.<\/p>\n
However, this year’s competition delivered from round one right to the final kick, with each nation having their own story – and surely leaps to the top of the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tournament opened with Italy shocking Scotland in Rome to put Gregor Townsend under pressure. His side then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-476445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}