If you flicked through the mainstream media’s rugby pages last weekend you would have struggled to find much coverage of the Women’s Six Nations, which kicks off this weekend. The championship again has its own window after the men’s tournament. It was seen as a sensible step in principle, but the scheduling gods have not been kind. The women’s game is competing for attention on the sports pages with other high-profile events. The opening games are now played on the same weekend as the Investec Champions Cup quarter-finals and the Masters golf. It’s not ideal, and yet it is not…

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