"Rugby's a great game when it's played properly but when you're not going out there to score tries and you're going out there to defend and play field position, sometimes rugby isn't a great spectacle for general sports fans. In the Six Nations, I think it would be a really good, interesting thing to look closely at, in terms of how the scoring does work. The use of bonus points for a certain number of tries, or for keeping the margin to a certain number.

"I have to say the World Cup's been working like that, we've always had pretty good World Cups so far. But it was an interesting day for the Six Nations because it was without doubt the best Six Nations day in the history of the competition."

England, Ireland and Wales went into the final round of the competition on six points a piece after three wins each, while England sat in front on points difference. In the first game, Wales monstered Italy 61-20, leaving Ireland to beat Scotland away by more than 21 points. Joe Schmidt's team managed to make it a 30-point thumping, which then set England a target margin of 27 points against France in the third and final game. In a thrilling end-to-end clash, they won the match but fell short of the required margin by a converted try. Ireland, watching the match in the bowels of Murrayfield in Edinburgh, were crowned champions for a second year running.

Woodward, who was part of the BBC commentary team that called the Twickenham Test, urged administrators to take note.

"All three teams were having to chase the points, it shows you what can happen if a team goes out there with a winning margin they have to deal with. It wasn't a zero-zero game, they had to go out there with a mindset of having to score big differences and the games were brilliant.