With the 2022 Six Nations now behind us, it’s time to reflect on the tournament both on and off the pitch. In his column this morning, Gerry Thornley writes that the action lived up to expectations on the grass but, in the stands in Dublin, it was a different story. Indeed the IRFU were reduced at times to pumping sound in through the PA speakers during the match at Lansdowne Road, such was the lack of atmosphere. “One French visitor last Saturday observed it was more like an outdoor pub, such was the constant traffic with trays in the aisles,” he writes. Elsewhere, Owen Doyle writes that the loud nature of Wayne Barnes’ constant chatter is a little over the top. “From the number of texts which pinged into my phone I am certainly …