Hello, this is the Ruck, the journalist's rugby podcast from The Times and the Sunday

times. We are back in studio on a Monday and what a weekend of action we have to look back on. I'm Alfie Reynolds and alongside me is Charlie Morgan. All right, Charlie?

Hi, mate. How was your trip back from Rome? I feel like I saw you just a matter of hours ago in Rome Airport.

I was just, it was 14 hours ago that we parted ways after I stuffed my face with pizza in Rome Airport. It was fine, mate. Thank you very much for asking. Brighton. Not too jaded this morning. No, no, no, no. Good to go for one last week. Why not? Good man. And also with us, fresh from a trip to Murrayfield, where he saw an absolute classic Elgin Alderman. Elgin, morning.

Morning. It was, I spoke before the Six Nations about my favourite Six Nations Saturday,

another cloud in the sky, and that was this weekend. Edinburgh, my favourite city in the world,

15,000 Frenchmen in town, brilliant bonkers game of rugby. It was just what weekends are supposed to be. Absolutely. So the last pod we had was from

Rome, Stadio Olimpico, Saturday night, myself and Will, looking back on England's first ever defeat to Italy.

As expected, we have had loads of reaction, loads of emails from our listeners. We will come on to a few of

those and chat about the England performance and where they are later on in the pod. We've got so many emails that we're actually also going to have to use some on Thursday because we won't be able to get through all of them. So for those of you that have emailed in, thank you very much. We will try and get to as many of them across this week as we possibly can. As I say, we'll get on to England. I want to start off at Murrayfield with an incredible result, incredible performance from Scotland. But maybe before that, I've seen people say it. I feel like this is something that crops up pretty much every Six Nations. Have we just seen one of the great weekends? Have we seen the greatest weekend of Six Nations rugby ever? What do we reckon? I've been through them all. I think it's probably in the top ten. I'm not going to go into all of them just yet because we'll talk about something about the game itself first, maybe later on. If you'll permit me, you can go to you two and go and make a coffee and I'll read them all out to myself. But I certainly think with just, yeah, the history of that Italy win, I'm pretty sure first time in

Six Nations history that both teams have scored 40 or more points in the game, which says it all,

just how bonkers that result was, but also just Wales. We were talking at the start of this

tournament about if Wales might end up as the worst Six Nations team in history based off those

41 and 42 point defeats in the first two rounds.

But the way that they went to Ireland again on Friday night, after the way that they had battled against Scotland, they've, they still haven't won, but they've turned the narrative around significantly.

So it really was, yeah, a great weekend of Six Nations, Rob.

I always think it's really good point because I always think

and you guys mentioned it on the pod

are in Rome. When the floor comes up

that's what makes a great

Six Nations weekend right? When there's

a really good underdog performance

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