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SIX NATIONS HISTORY

Six titles this century feels like scant reward for such a powerhouse nation, but you may be forgetting their penchant for missing the mark some years. Remember this is a nation who joined the Home Nations sides in 1910, and would not win the title outright until 1959.

But in the late Eighties they were on a roll and in the late Nineties, another crop

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