Six Nations 2026: our writers pick their tournament highlights

Robert Kitson Impossible to look past Louis Bielle-Biarrey who, among assorted records, has become the first player to score a try in every Six Nations game in successive seasons. But Italy’s Tommaso Menoncello and Ireland’s Stuart McCloskey also deserve a podium place. There will be some who dislike 50-40 and 48-46 scorelines on principle. Too fast, too loose. But Scotland’s spectacular win over France and England’s breathless loss in Paris showed what is possible when the best players let their hair down. Now officially known as The Rhys Carré award. Those memes of the pacy Welsh prop pipping Usain Bolt on the line were fun as well. An honorary mention, too, to Leonardo Marin’s...