COMING INTO a Test set-up as a youngster must be nerve-racking enough. But to do it in the Six Nations? Phew! Yet some athletes are meant for the big stage and there is none bigger than the treasured annual championship – burst onto the scene there and the world knows about it!
We’ve run down a list of 12 players who hit the tournament hard from the off – and many of them went on to have legendary Test careers. We may have stretched the format a little here and there, but largely these are star turns now synonymous with the tournament…
Martin Johnson
England, 1993
Right from the off we’ve gone for someone who, yes, started before the Six Nations era (it was the Five Nations until Italy joined in 2000) – and he’s the only player we’ve given such latitude. But Martin Johnson went on to become the figurehead of a
