Don't think it's us anymore at all, the reverse actually. Probably have to go back to the Kidney days for Ireland's best performance in a calendar year being against England and 2021 for that to apply to the 6n. England have consistently raised their game to play us over the past few years.Not sure it's "everyone".
Just Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Australia.
Don't think it's us anymore at all, the reverse actually. Probably have to go back to the Kidney days for Ireland's best performance in a calendar year being against England and 2021 for that to apply to the 6n. England have consistently raised their game to play us over the past few years.
For Wales and Scotland it definitely is. The only reason it's not so much for Ireland these days is because they are good enough to beat us without being fuelled by hate.It's a good narrative, but is that really a thing now, bar perhaps the first 5 minutes after the anthems? Maybe more for the fans than the players, although that might filter through a bit?
If Wal are bang up for it, its probably more because they'll be desperate to salvage something from their championship rather than the opposition being in white shirts.
Speaking of Hogg, I think his attitude went beyond just being anti-English as shown by his recent issues...Feels like it's mainly Scotland in the six nations who love the English scalp, that for sure filtered down to the players in the last decade, Hogg insufferable at times, outside of that Australia were fairly desperate as we'd had their no since our home WC group exit in 2015, the recent loss to them might have diminished that for a while.