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00:21It's an amazing experience for us to...
00:25have everyone from the Six Nations with us in this wonderful city of Edinburgh.
00:30It's steeped in history, but more importantly perhaps steeped in rugby history.
00:34The home of...
00:351871, the first international rugby match was played only a...
00:40a few kilometres from here.
00:41Look, this year the Six Nations is bigger and better than it's ever been.
00:45And I think it comes at a time where international rugby's never been stronger.
00:49We've got a huge...
00:50a huge amount to look forward to this year, including a Thursday night start in Paris
00:53for the very first time.
00:55And that kind of innovation tells you just how strong and powerful this...
01:00championship is.
01:05Now this is what
01:15I absolutely knew.
01:20There's nothing.
01:22I wanted to look forward to this.
01:24Break the walk.
01:35We are really motivated and excited by the first game at home.
01:40It will be a bit worse to play on Thursday night.
01:45We take the opportunity to play the opening game of the Sixth Nation.
01:47It's always special.
01:49Everyone is watching it.
01:51So we have to be ready for that.
02:00It's true that this tournament is an important tournament.
02:03It's a tournament where we will try to confirm our victory of the last year.
02:08So we have won the last tournament.
02:10We will try to confirm.
02:11We will come back to back this year.
02:15It's our project.
02:16It's our challenge.
02:18It's our challenge.
02:18It's our challenge.
02:18just having knowledge of the adversaries and the difficulties of the tournament.
02:23For me, it's difficult.
02:25This competition is fantastic, it's really difficult.
02:28I don't know if it's so good.
02:33I think the Six Nations Championship is so special.
02:38It's because of the rivalries.
02:41These rivalries have existed for years.
02:43For so long.
02:44Close neighbours.
02:46Many of them play to play.
02:48Many of the players play together for their clubs.
02:50Many households are split.
02:53Some support England.
02:54Some support Scotland.
02:56It's that.
02:58These rivalries that make it so very, very special.
03:01Yeah, I think with the, you know.
03:03It's a big year in general with the Nations Championship and the Six Nations.
03:06And, you know, I just think that rugby is...
03:08in such an exciting spot at the minute because, you know,
03:10you've got so many opportunities to see the best versus the best.
03:13And that's exactly what you're going to see during the Six Nations.
03:16And, yeah, it's a really exciting year.
03:18For everyone involved in rugby and everyone watching at home.
03:23We've got seven different groups.
03:24And, yeah.
03:26Let's play.
03:28We believe the game that we play can be a match for anybody.
03:33And even throughout November where we had a cup of agonising.
03:38The game we played put those teams under pressure and that's all you ask for.
03:43Of the team to give their best to play as well as they can.
03:48Show that effort, that physicality that we demand of them and that should put us...
03:53...and a place to get tri-scoting opportunities.
03:56Yes, it's something that we've never done before.
03:58And there's a lot of games between now and touching the trophy.
04:01But that should be your goal and that should be your dream.
04:03It's to touch the trophy but...
04:08My message to the group would be to get the ball rolling and to start well in Rome.
04:13And that's the most important thing.
04:14And that we play, go out there and play our rugby, play confidently.
04:18And start this tournament well.
04:23Well, if you can't get...
04:28If you're excited about a Six Nations then you're in the wrong place.
04:32You're in the wrong job.
04:33To me, every single time I'm fortunate enough to be involved.
04:38In a Six Nations Championship, the energy and the excitement.
04:43Because you understand just what it means to...
04:48...the teams that are playing, the countries, the rivalries, all of them.
04:53For that, you know.
04:58Yeah, I haven't been in yet. I'll meet up with the lads later on and but I think
05:03at the core of everything we're doing there's still a lot of belief like I mentioned earlier.
05:08Some of the performances and results weren't where we wanted in November but there's definitely belief that
05:13we can right the wrongs and improve on that.
05:18Yeah, feeling.
05:23Feeling great about new coaching setup and new faces. I think it's been a breath of...
05:28Fresh Air for us as a group. It's also brought an incredible...
05:33change and like the passion and energy that the new coaching...
05:38staff have brought has only funneled down into the players and into the environment.
05:43And we're just excited to get started.
05:48Well, last year it's been quite important for us obviously to build on our...
05:53on our performances and you know we now want to keep improving in a way.
05:58But finding that consistency that probably we couldn't be able to...
06:03find last year so having those yes big games but then being able to...
06:08perform every single week and every single game of this tournament is probably the main objective.
06:13of our campaign.
06:15Scotland against England and so to...
06:18be able to bring everyone from the Six Nations community back into Edinburgh for the start of what...
06:23promises to be an unbelievable tournament.
06:28Can you buy straight a billy for me please? Nice and serious?
06:30Just look and notice that there's no way.
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