Six Nations

The Six Nations is looking less clear-cut by the day and with new coaches coming to the forefront, so do a new array of gifted players.

As Six Nations time swings by for another year, it's a great chance for myself and the other foreigners that play in the Northern Hemisphere to get out there and explore Europe.

Canada are one of the stalwarts of World Cup rugby, being one of only three countries outside the Six Nations and The Rugby Championship powerhouses to feature in every tournament (alongside Japan and Romania) and have consistently proven themselves as one of the second tier's most combative of opponents.

Six Nations coaches and players chat to Talking Rugby

Cueto is a one of a number of the members of England's dismal World Cup campaign to have either voluntarily cut loose from England or simply been omitted by Lancaster.

The Welsh Rugby Union have announced a 35 man training squad ahead of next month's Six Nations tournament and after finishing in 4th place in the 2011 Rugby World Cup

Six Nations thoughts from Lamont, Roberts, Heaslip and Foden

Declan Kidney is an excellent rugby coach. An under-19 world title, two Heineken cups and an Irish Grand Slam confirm as much.

How's it going all my rugby readers? As the festive period has been and gone, I've set myself the usual New Year's resolutions....FAIL!

Most of us wake on New Year's day with two things. The first is a hangover of such epic magnitude that the day's biggest achievement is not being sick at the family dinner table.

It is almost that time of year again. January, in rugby's calendar, is the month where everyone is put into the Six Nations blender of anticipation, expectation, hope, fear, nerves €“ you name it, and it has been tossed in for good measure €“ before the lid comes off in February and you are a left a smoothie of emotion as your country sets off on a five-game quest for glory.

It is widely accepted that Charlie Sharples was probably the most unlucky out of the crop of young England hopefuls who were left to watch on from the comfort of their own homes.

Several young stars like Owen Farrell and Chris Robshaw have staked their claims with impressive performances in the Aviva Premiership and Heineken Cup.

The Rugby Football Union is pondering moving one of their 2013 Six Nations clashes away from Twickenham, according to reports.

The introduction of Stuart Lancaster as England's interim coach for the next Six Nations tournament has given a chance to the fringe players to prove their worth along with the younger talent that English rugby has waiting in the wings.

''In the next two or three years we need to be in a position to win the Six Nations'' - Those are the ambitious goals of Jacques Brunel...

March 2008 Warren Gatland steers Wales to a six nations grand slam just months after taking charge of the national side

The spine tingled as the noise belted out of my television and how I wished I hadn't given my tickets away

Scotland's disappointing Six Nations campaign ended on a high as they comfortably beat Italy at Murrayfield to avoid the wooden spoon