{"id":389175,"date":"2026-03-17T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/389175\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:46:13","slug":"six-nations-jury-did-france-deserve-the-title-how-can-ireland-improve-and-who-is-your-player-of-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/389175\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations jury: Did France deserve the title, how can Ireland improve and who is your player of the tournament?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's Stuart McCloskey celebrates after the Six Nations win against Scotland - the Ulster centre had a tournament to remember. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages_2266218080.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland&#8217;s Stuart McCloskey celebrates after the Six Nations win against Scotland &#8211; the Ulster centre had a tournament to remember. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Our team of rugby experts deliver their verdicts on one of the most exhilarating Six Nations ever witnessed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u200bR\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Just about. Ultimately, they made their dominance count on their good days and picked up the bonus points they needed along the way. To concede 96 points in the last two games will undermine their credentials as an all-time winner, but they were the best of the bunch in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Stuart McCloskey celebrates after the Six Nations win against Scotland &#8211; the Ulster centre had a tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,39921,18,19,67397,17,103271,4934,12392,132,109777],"class_list":{"0":"post-389175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-cian-tracey","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-international-rugby","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-michael-sadlier","15":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","16":"tag-sinead-kissane","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-will-slattery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116243174816653909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}