Rampant England, rudderless Scotland
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Alan, Gav and Charles unpack the opening weekend of Six Nations action!
England and France laid down their intentions to win a Grand Slam with comfortable victories over Wales and Ireland
Meanwhile it was a nightmare start for Gregor Townsend and Scotland who were shocked away in Italy. The Scotland coach now faces serious questions over his future following the defeat, and we ask if a win in the Calcutta Cup this weekend would do anything to change the public perception around him.
A lot of questions surrounding Ireland too, the 2024 winners were comfortably beaten in Paris on the opening night, and to make matters worse their 'A" side suffered an even bigger defeat to England the following night to leave Andy Farrell short on options, next up for them is a confident Italy side in Dublin.
And we tackle all of your questions as usual too!
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
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| 0:37.0 | Thank you. Plan your getaway at visit Dubai.com. |
| 0:48.9 | Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Telegraph Rugby podcast, or should I say bonjourno. |
| 0:50.4 | My name is Alan Dimmick. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm the commissioning editor for sport here at the Telegraph and I am joined |
| 0:54.6 | again for a full six nations round out with Gavin Mayors Gavin how are you well well yeah and |
| 1:00.8 | Charles Richardson now I'm zip down the names there because I'm sort of putting off the netto but |
| 1:05.8 | yeah I was going to say is that a cup full of your tears yeah possibly but actually |
| 1:10.1 | a hell of an exciting weekend just And also, Charles, you were, you've had bylines on reports from all three games at the weekend. Yeah, busy boy. You've been covering all. I was Paris, gents. Yeah, good, wasn't it? Good pre-match atmosphere, good spectacle, as always, you'd say? It was, except, I'll just come back to what we were talking about last week. |
| 1:30.0 | I hated the Thursday. |
| 1:31.2 | I hated Thursday. |
| 1:32.9 | We've seen French TV come out with, you know, record figures, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:37.2 | Guys, honestly, like the six stations is about a cultural experience, fans flooding the city. |
| 1:42.6 | I think we saw six Irish fans all day on Thursday. It was grim. The weather |
| 1:47.5 | was dreadful. Getting the RAR out to the stadium was full of commuters. It was not a sight. There was not a |
| 1:56.0 | blue jersey or green jersey. There was no cheering. It may have well worked in terms of people sitting at home on a Thursday night looking |
| 2:03.8 | for something to do. |
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