New stars emerged across the board as Ireland successfully defended their Six Nations title. More talent will be itching to follow Joe McCarthy, Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, Tommaso Meno

Six new faces to watch in the 2025 Six Nations - There is plenty of new talent ready to emerge in this year’s championship

France captain Antoine Dupont said Toulouse's thrashing of Leicester in the Champions Cup was the perfect warm-up for the Six Nations.

Next up in our set of previews ahead of the Six Nations we examine the prospects of last fifth-placed finishers, Gonzalo Quesada's Italy.

Last year, rugby fans were resigned to the fact the Toulouse number was all in on winning an Olympic medal, the Six Nations would ... team ahead of this year’s championship.

France face their trickier biennial Six Nations itinerary in oddly numbered years, with England in Twickenham and Ireland in the Aviva Stadium. Of their six titles since the expansion to the Six Nations, France have won only one championship in odd years.

Dupont is one of 13 Toulouse players included in Fabien Galthie’s 42-man France squad for the Six Nations, which begin on Jan 31. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Following the Six Nations squad announcements and with the action closing in fast, our focus turns to those players set to miss part or in some cases all of the Championship.

Two returning players and French teams' results in Europe put Les Bleus in good heart for the Six Nations despite some injury concerns.

"It gets us started on preparing for the Six Nations championship," said Dupont. "We saw that everyone was in great shape, able to move and hit it up, too." Dupont is one of 13 Toulouse players ...

I'm really looking forward to this Six Nations because I think it should be a great tournament and no one knows exactly what is coming.

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