The Six Nations Championship is a prestigious, century-old competition, highlighting an ancestral rivalry among the British, with which France is successfully involved, and hopefully Italy in the future.
It is a special, singular and rare atmosphere. No other competition in the world can boast of offering such a craze every year as the Six Nations in the stadiums and around in the third half.
In recent days, Georgia has once again continued to break us to want to join the Tournament, following its umpteenth victory in the Rugby Europe Championship.
They beat Portugal without some of their best players, and they show off.
A team that, let’s remember anyway, finished last in its pool at the World Cup, especially behind Portugal, and that continues to demand what no team owes it.
In other words : nobody cares about Lelos.
Strong teams ahead with a big scrum, there is a plethora of them in rugby.
A team that relies on its power to dominate its opponents, for the most part Semi-amateur, has nothing to claim at all.
It is not two or three ball players that will change the image of Georgia. As good as the Niniashvili, Aprasidze or Matkava are, they do not change the face of their team.
Very little chance first that the Six Nations will accept the idea that supporters will prefer to visit Tbilisi in Rome. Question of taste and heritage.
Then, given the potential (definitive?) ascension of Italy in the Tournament, even more unlikely to see Wales being replaced at the turn of a dam by Georgia.
I repeat without concession : we don’t care about Georgia. This team will not bring anything to the Six Nations, and does not make anyone dream of the few hypocrites who do not watch any Lelos match, but who have postures of giving moral lessons about the globalisation of rugby.
And too bad if the Six Nations remains a blood competition.
I’m waiting to see the six unions accept to see their commercial income from the competition drop drastically and therefore put themselves even more at risk, all this to play the good Samaritans and please the few rugby hipsters, who, I repeat, do not watch any Georgia matches.