Talk:Six Nations Championship
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Who captained France to five nations victory in 1959?
- The competition is something of an anomaly since the Irish team is comprised of players from both Northern Ireland and the Republic. It is only in rugby union that the north and south of Ireland provide a combined team.
This is fundamentally incorrect. Very many sports are organised on an all-Ireland basis. -Gabriel Beecham/Kwekubo 23:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Calcutta Cup needs adding.
- and the Millennium Trophy.
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[edit] Millennium Trophy
The article stated that the Millennium Trophy has been contested since 2000. However the Millennium Trophy article, and other sources state that the trophy was commissioned in 1988 ; the website also mentions Ireland winning it in 1993 and 1994. Gives a list of winners back to 1998.Tonywalton 
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The cup celebrates Dublin's millenium rather than THE millenium. Perhaps that is why people get confused.GordyB 12:18, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the debate was move supported. The article has been moved. Andrewa 18:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Can anybody give me a reason why this should not be called Six Nations Championship? AFAIK there is no other tournament with this name and the Rugby Union bit at the beginning serves no purpose other than to make the title overlong.
If nobody has any objection I will move this page in a couple of days' time.GordyB 11:46, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- Support. I have also suggested that the AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Six Nations Championship be closed, it is unnecessary (and redirects go to RfD not AfD anyway). Andrewa 06:35, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Irish flag
With regards to the Irish flag used beforethe free state, would it not make more sense to use the cross of St. Patrick then the Tricolour and Ulster flags?
Musungu jim 13:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
- This was voted on at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rugby_union, the conclusion was that the shamrock was the popular choice. I somehow missed this page when converting the various flags to shamrocks.GordyB 13:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
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- It's a little more complex than I first thought, the [[Image:Irish clover.jpg |{{{1|20}}}px]] image that I used on other pages is too big (and doesn't have 'Ireland' coming after it, if I rescale it to 1|15 it is the right height but not wide enough. This will have to wait while I try to find a solution. I think probably the best thing I can do is to edit the image file used by this page rather than try to insert a different image.GordyB 14:32, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] France
Who actually kicked France out in 1930, was it the international rugby football board, or a decesion made by a 5N board of some kind?? 144.131.202.34 06:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- I think the RFU was largely behind it. The IRFB were up and running at the time but IIRC the RFU held half the seats (the French not being represented), the SRU were even more fanatical about amateurism than their English counterparts. The Irish probably didn't care and the Welsh might have sympathised.GordyB 13:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
