Wales can never be written off but variety of hosts’ potent attacking game points to a home victory
So it’s back, and with perfect timing. If ever a global calendar comes into being, thecannot be moved from its traditional slot. With crowds back for the first time in almost two years, anticipation is high for a vintage version of the best annual tournament in the sport, and which this year kicks off with five of the world’s top eight sides.
Viewed in that light, today’s double header, with the Calcutta Cup to follow, almost seem like title, as well as Grand Slam, eliminators.are its classic example. It says everything about the tournament’s unpredictability that the reigning champions are ranked eighth and rated fifth favourites with the bookies.
Fittingly perhaps, the 2022 championship kicks off with unquestionably its most fiendishly unpredictable fixture of them all. From 1968 to 1983, there were 11 home wins, one draw and just three away wins. Yet from 1984 to 2001, there were just three home wins and a draw, as against 13 away wins. Cardiff became a happy hunting ground for Ireland, and equally Dublin for Wales.
Wales dominated the 70s, and Ireland the Noughties, but otherwise there’s been no pattern, and even less rhyme or reason. And we really shouldn’t need reminding that sharply contrasting fortunes in Europe rarely counts for much.of the national team in Wales. “It’s certainly their number one sport, which says it all.
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