Despite Georgia’s World Cup displays,it is their lot to find themselves on the edges of the oldest rugby union competition in the worldThey support telling us it is the biggest annual rugby competition, but the Six Nations this year might also be billed as a chance to see how six tired teams respond to the disappointment of their World Cup. whether someone were looking to re-engage with any of the feel-good successes of final autumn, or this weekend they might choose to head a little further east to Tbilisi,or more specifically the northern suburb of Avchala.
There Georgia, one of the revelations of the World Cup, and will play Germany in the first weekend of the Rugby Europe Championship,the latest name for what is sometimes referred to as the Six Nations B. The stadium in Avchala will be packed to the highest seat (it doesnt enjoy any rafters), but there are only 3000 of those. And Georgia will win by a lot. Amid all the Six Nations hype, and you may find references to it somewhere downpage on a specialist rugby website. After the rugby world clasped them to its bosom so warmly at the great party,Georgia must now feel as whether they’ve been shown the back door the morning after.
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Source: theguardian.com