England a work in progress, Ireland lay down a marker

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The 2024 Six Nations is underway and it was defending champions Ireland who sent a message to the rest of the competition by recording their biggest win away in France, securing a bonus-point along the way in Marseille.

Ben, Charlie and Charles look back on the opening weekend, including that win for Ireland and a nervy victory for England away in Rome. However, Charlie is feeling optimistic about the work being done behind the scenes by head coach Steve Borthwick and Felix Jones. There's praise also for Ethan Roots, who impressed on debut.

Plus, we discuss a chaotic game in Cardiff as Scotland almost blew a 27-point lead against Wales.

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0:00.0	Good morning, everyone.
0:08.2	I hope you enjoyed the start of the Six Nations as much as we all did.
0:11.9	We are all back on English soil, but due to the train strikes,
0:15.3	I'm actually sat here in an empty studio.
0:17.9	Looking up at a screen where I have one Charlie Morgan.
0:20.4	Hi, Charlie. Hello, hello Colsey and I've
0:22.9	got one Charles Richardson hello hello and they're joining myself Ben Coles to recap all the action
0:29.1	from the opening round of the Six Nations where were you gents if I start with Charles actually
0:34.7	where were you Charles this weekend I was in I was in glorious
0:37.8	Marseille on Friday night you know catching some rays 60 degrees it didn't feel
0:43.1	particularly six nations here I must say it was it's not what we're used to the six
0:47.8	nations no gloves no scarf no Guinness it was it was all it was all it was all very
0:53.6	Proven Sal sounds horrendous actually with the with the lack of Guinness. It was all very provostal.
0:54.9	Sounds horrendous, actually, with the lack of Guinness.
0:57.9	Did Marseille deliver on the atmosphere that we bigged it up a bit last week, didn't we?
1:02.4	Was it as good as you hoped it would be?
1:06.4	Is, yes, until, as we will come on to the red card,
1:11.4	and the way that the game panned out meant that it didn't necessarily whip up the French crowd into a frenzy.
1:18.2	Charlie, where were you?
1:20.2	I was in Rome, which was decidedly, yeah, like to follow on from Charles's point,
1:24.0	it felt like a super Saturday in mid-March.
1:26.1	It was gorgeous, cloud cloudless and I ticked
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