The sport needs every week to be a super Saturday, not a one-off extravaganza, if it is to broaden its appeal
If Super Saturday truly lives up to its billing it will be bittersweet. On the one hand, we have three teams still in with a genuine chance of winning the title and the real possibility of a feast of attacking rugby in pursuit of bonus points. If it does turn out that way, though, it leaves me asking why it doesn’t happen every week.
If England and Ireland – less so the current France team because they are more built that way anyway – can flick the switch and approach these matches with an attacking mindset we may just have a day to rival the Six Nations climax in 2015, one of the classic finales in the competition’s history. I fully expect, for example, that Ireland’s attack will be significantly more dangerous than last week. But if teams can turn it on like that, why does rugby ordinarily prefer to exist in third gear? Why don’t we do more to sell our sport as this brilliant, expressive, attacking game?
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