After, 15 games, the Six Nations will be able to show their tournament is something not to be tampered with, says Brendan Fanning in the Irish Independent.
"With this Six Nations we are putting rugby's ELVs into our most glamorous shop window. In March, there will be another all-in conference of interested parties, followed then by each union going away and fixing on a position, and lastly in May, after the IRB have put heaven and earth into saving face, the decision will be taken on what is to be bought and what is to be binned.
"If you were to take a punt now, you'd say that the game next season won't look a whole lot different to the way it looks now. North of the equator -- critically -- we never got on board at any serious level with the horrendous 'free kick fits all' sanction, so we won't have to wear that in the future. There's a reasonable chance too that the maul will go back to the way it was, though with a stipulation that it be refereed as a maul and not a piece of industrial machinery that starts and stops and starts again."
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