An all-time great 6 Nations produces an ending for the ages
The Ruck
Reynolds Alfie
3.4 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The 2026 6 Nations is over!
One of the great championships went down to the final kick of the final match. Thomas Ramos knocked over a penalty to break English hearts and deny Ireland the title.
The morning after the events in Paris, Alex Lowe, Charlie Morgan and Will Kelleher join Alfie Reynolds to look back on an incredible finale and the tournament as a whole.
Where on earth has that England performance been? Does it soften the blow of England's worst ever 6 Nations campaign?
France are the champions but did they limp over the finish line? Did Scotland have a successful campaign or should they be disappointed by not winning four matches? And how significant a moment was Wales' win against Italy on the final weekend?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome along to The Ruck, the journalist's rugby podcast from The Times and the Sunday time. |
| 0:19.6 | Sunday morning, sun is shining on the streets of Paris. Welcome along. I'm Alfie Reynolds. And for our Six Nations debrief, what a Six Nations. It has been, by the way, what a super Saturday. It was to my right-hand side. I've got Will Kelleher. Hello. I've got Charlie Morgan straight in front of me. Hi, pal. And to my left, Alex, Alex. Good morning. |
| 0:38.5 | Lads. |
| 0:39.5 | What a super Saturday. |
| 0:41.0 | Incredible. |
| 0:41.5 | Do we sound a bit like we're a bit gone? |
| 0:44.8 | We're a bit lacking in sort of energy and pep, maybe. |
| 0:49.7 | I feel like we're probably still brain scrambled a little bit. |
| 0:53.0 | That's how I feel anyway. |
| 0:54.1 | Melted its wheelie beans all over the place. Coming to our senses. I'm glad we're outside in the fresh air to sort of, as you say, pep us up a bit, but you're right. I'm nearly being reversed into. So yeah, that's live broadcasting. No, it was a phenomenal, phenomenal Saturday. A fantastically gripping tournament that came. It couldn't have come closer to the wire if we'd have scripted it, right? Can I ask Alex a question? And this is going to sound a bit like when Holly Willoughby asked the nation when that Phillips Schofield stuff was kicking off. But how are you? Mate. Are you right, mate? So Alex has had to do the On the Whistle Match report, |
| 1:29.8 | and that has got to be the most savage thing ever. |
| 1:32.9 | I think that was the hardest on the whistle report that I've had to do. |
| 1:38.0 | You talk to guys like Matt Dickinson, old colleagues of ours, |
| 1:41.4 | who was covering Man United winning the Champions League in 99 where |
| 1:46.0 | their live copy, it's on deadline, so they're writing as the game's going, and they're starting |
| 1:52.2 | to write that, you know, Ferguson's messed it up, and he's got the tactics all wrong, and then bang, bang, |
| 1:56.9 | United win it with two goals in an injury time, And they've got to rewrite everything in about three minutes. |
| 2:04.1 | Yesterday, I couldn't even commit to one take. |
| 2:07.9 | My job was to file a match report on the final whistle. |
| 2:10.5 | So we would do it as what we call a runner. |
| 2:12.2 | So I'd said a chunk at half time, sort of runner play stuff through the game. |
| 2:15.2 | But then the top, which is obviously the key bit, |
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