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Welcome back.

It's that time of year again, Six Nations.

This is the Telegraph Rugby podcast.

My name is Alan Dimmock.

I'm a commissioning editor here for Telegraph Sport. I am joined by the big brains of Gavin Mayors and Charles Richardson. Gentlemen,

how are we doing? Gab, ready to go? Yeah, I think so. Exciting week.

Strange week. We're starting off on a Thursday. The good news is it means that Charles and I

can both get over to Paris and get back in time to see England Wales as well. So yeah, it's going to be a busy week, but what a way to start the tournament. Charles Richardson, obviously a huge pain for you to be heading off to France to start off the Six Nations looking forward to it? The heartbleeds. Yeah, I am. Yeah, massively. I've already said this in the pages of the Daily Telegraph that I'm massively looking

forward to Thursday night rugby. I think they should do it going forward. I think the Prem should do it,

and I think other leagues should follow suit. And I think it shouldn't be an outlier. I think there's

a good excuse to do it with the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. But I'm all for it, really. What else? Charles, what about the per fan? Well, yeah. Yeah, you've got to think of them too. I do. I do. I do. But, I mean, there's Europa League football on a Thursday night. There's Europa League football on a Thursday night. and the fans seem to quite okay with that. The only person I know that would be holding up

the Europa League football on a Thursday night and the fans seem to quite okay with that. The only person I know that would be holding up the Europa League is the way we should be going. Yeah, but there's nothing, that's the only thing it's competing with. That's the only thing it's competing with. The Prem should play on a Thursday night. France playing a Thursday night. It does really well. And it does really, and TV is where the money is. Some people have to work on Friday so. Yeah, I know. But TV is where, TV is where the money is on a Thursday and you would get more TV money for playing on a Thursday. The travelling fans might not be so keen, but I am. Well, the Six Nations is going to be very different this year anyway because we've got five games in six weeks. We're cutting down on fallow piers. We're cramming it all in. And there was chat, I mean, just very quickly, Gav. There was maybe chat before this tournament that maybe it was going to be a three horse race for the Six Nations. I suppose we'll get a barometer of whether that is the case now because Ireland have had a lot of injuries to deal with France. There's some funky stuff going on with their selection, but actually, whatever night it falls on, opening up with France, Ireland, is a really interesting barometer of where we are with this information. It's just brilliant. And the fact that it ends with France England as well, um, and super Saturday. Listen, it's, it is,

um, And the fact that it ends with France England as well and Super Saturday.

Listen, it's, it is a very, very open championship, I think.

And, you know, I was up in Glasgow, a couple of weeks ago saying Glasgow,

take apart Saracens with a lot of England players in there a lot of Lions players in there

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