The most incredible Six Nations finale in living memory gave us plenty of performances to drool over.
Tries from props, magic hands from hookers, hat-tricks from wings and some dazzling dancing feet in midfield helped the points tally rocket from the word go on Super Saturday.
That Ireland ended up with the title was almost a footnote to the sheer joy of seeing tries rain down where the previous four rounds had seen tight tactics driven by a desire to keep errors low.
The staggered kick-off times unshackled every team—each knowing the job they had to do required a mountain of points to keep them in contention—and playing the only way they could that would give them a chance.
A game briefly liberated from defence-minded coaching suggested, perhaps, that it is not so much the laws—endlessly critiqued and tweaked by the powers that be—that are the cause of the drudgery we can often be subjected to.
Rather, coaches judged on results insist on risk-free rugby above all else. Can we blame them?
Yesterday, they had no choice but to drop that playbook in the bin and tell their players to go for it.
The results spoke for themselves, as does the final week’s first XV.
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