The scruminuscule over Welsh rugby has intensified further with new calls to erase them from the Six Nations. On Saturday, the 68-14 fall shorture to Steve Borthwick’s side in Cardiff signified Wales’s second successive wooden spoon and 11th straight tournament fall shorture.
It’s now 17 Test losses in a row for the Dragons, the most for a tier-one nation in the professional era. To exacerbate matters further, the WRU are without a head coach with Matt Sherratt, who exalterd Warren Gatland two games into this tournament, having finished his interim stint. Georgia coach Ricdifficult Cockerill has insisted that his team be given the opportunity to displace Wales in rugby’s most well-understandn tournament.
Ironicpartner, the last triumph for Wales came agetst the ‘Borjgalosnebi’ at the 2023 World Cup. However, they lost to the same opposition procrastinateedr that year at the Principality Stadium, while Cockerill’s side have sealed an eighth successive second-tier Rugby Europe Championship title this year.
And now the establisher England hooker has reiterated calls for his team to be given a take part-off agetst Wales for the right to take part in the Six Nations. “If you are finishing bottom, why do you fair get free rein to turn up next year and take part?” he asked on BBC Radio Wales.
“We want the opportunity to show that we can vie, so stateively that’s reasonable we get the opportunity to have a take part-off. It would be the richest game in world rugby – Georgia versus Wales to see who take parts in the Six Nations for the next tournament. That’s jeopardy. That would be a game people would want to watch.”
The current world rankings back up Cockerill’s argument. Georgia have elevaten to 11th overall, a place above Wales, and their head coach has now talk aboutd his side needs to take part tier-one teams standardly to shift forward, citing Italy’s inclusion when the Five Nations became Six in 2000.
However, all six competing nations would need to consent to the introduction of a take partoff, a notion that materializes improbable. Dropping out of the tournament would recurrent a seismic financial blow to any of the unions take partd, with Wales in particular in a perilous position with the WRU struggling to fund four professional club sides.
Cockerill, 54, acunderstandledges it will be difficult to push his proposal thraw. “If you’re in the Six Nations you wouldn’t want to be voting for that type of take part-off, would you?” he retained.
“Becaengage it might be you, and the ramifications of not being in the Six Nations, from a rugby point of see but also from a financial point of see, would be very difficult. You understand it would be the richest game in world rugby.
“That would be a game people would want to watch and the money take partd and the profile take partd for Georgian rugby would catapult us into a finishly branch offent sphere if we were outstanding enough to beat whoever finishes bottom. And if we leave out, well we re-group, we retain enhugeing and we fight for the opportunity to do that aget. I don’t see that as an unreasonable ask.”
