England England 20 Italy 7
Not even Jonny could put a sparkle into England's 6 Nations game against Italy this weekend - sorry boys but it really was a bit pants! Harry, once again you did your best but apart from a few nano seconds of excitement and a try from Billy Wizz (Jason Robinson) it was rather lame. The best way to have seen the match was on the video - at least then you could fast forward the 45,000 line outs every time Jonny kicked into touch.

Anyway, 2 out of 2 wins is not to be sniffed at, so if England can win playing like that - what can they do when they are on fire?

Italy came onto the pitch and played the first half as though they were resigned to a loss - very odd. They played the tactic of not contesting the lineouts - maybe it was some kind of reverse psychology or something. Who knows! It didn't work though....

A nice little touch - poor old Italy's Denis Dallan suffered a nasty injury which looked like it could be a broken ankle - it was one of those instances that us girls normally have in high shoes after having had a few - his foot turned right under at the ankle.... ouch! He was delicately stretchered off by the Italian physios, but not before receiving a great big kiss on his bald head from Italian scrum half Alessandro Troncon,  who in his heyday was one of the best scrumhalves in the world. How very cute! I can just imagine Phil Vickery running over and giving an injured England player a kiss on the cheek to help him get better! (not...)

In the second half Italy started to believe in themselves and had they come onto the pitch playing with that sort of Italian passion in the first place the scoreline may have been very different.

Scotland 21 Wales 9
Tears of joy for Scotland who delighted the Murrayfield crowd with a 'kicking' win over Wales.

The match itself was scrappy, but was far more energetic than the earlier game at Twickenham. Chris Patterson did quite well...scoring all 21 points (what a slacker!) but Stephen Jones couldn't keep up only managing to score 9. Wales struggled all the way through and it was only because of the clever defending by Tom Shanklin and Alun-Wyn Jones that stopped Scotland stretching the lead further with an almost try from Allan Jacobsen.

We were delighted to learn that RBS Man of the Match was going to be RFTG favourite Simon Taylor - the gorgeous blonde bombshell who works so hard in the pack but doesn't always get noticed. As we normally see Simon togged up in his rather fetching scrum hat, we thought we would treat you to him with slightly less on (far left - click to enlarge). Well done Simon  - much deserved. Also, a great way to celebrate your 50th cap!

Ireland 17 France 20 (reminds me of another score somewhere....)
If you felt all 'rugby'd' out I am sure you would have felt re-vitalised with the Ireland game against France, held at Croke Park. What a cracker! Ireland were a bit creaky at the beginning and at one stage were trailing 3-13 following a try from French and Wasp's hooker Raphael Ibanez- but then - somebody must have put chinese crackers into Ireland's green underpants, because all of a sudden they were off!

Sebastian 'I'm a gorgeous mammoth' Chabal (right) was amazing as usual but was struggling with a leg injury problem and was taken off. He is an incredible player to watch - next time he is playing just keep your eye on him - he's everywhere! He also has a very interesting tattoo on his left leg - you may want to have a look out for that too - (well this is RFTG - Men in Shorts!)

Overall, the match was very even in points, possession and territory. Ireland scored a well deserved try courtesy of Ronan O'Gara (didn't convert it though unfortunately) and then crept up to being 1 point in the lead which they held for some time. In the last few minutes we all thought Ireland's dream of the first Grand Slam in 60 years was a bit closer as they were awarded another penalty following some impressive mauling. A four point lead was even better. However, Clive Woodward always said you only need 22 seconds to score a try (something like that anyway) and the French proved him right.  Some of the Irish team had obviously gone off into the changing room to celebrate which meant that cheeky Vincent Clerc was allowed to pull off an impressive try which won France the match!

The Irish were quite rightly devastated. Brian O'Driscoll was in the stands looking like a city businessman in his black rimmed glasses - did I see a few tears behing those lenses?

All in all, Ireland and France produced a brilliant game of rugby - those of us who watched it from a neutral perspective and still have our finger nails had a real treat - more please!

(Image Sebastian Chabal © Action Images plc)