No Grand Slam (again) no bad thing for a Six Nations alive with possibility

No Triple Crown should be sniffed at, and certainly not a Championship.

The Irish team celebrate after Jamie Osborne's try against Wales. Pic: Inpho

Eddie Jones described a Grand Slam as an opportunity to “beat your chest a little bit” before his England clinched one on the last day of the Six Nations in Paris 10 years ago. Antoine Dupont cried a river of tears when France claimed theirs in 2022.

When Garry Ringrose and Sam Warburton won Slams with Ireland and Wales in the past they spoke about having watched their predecessors doing just that years before, and how the dream as schoolboys looking on had been to do the same.