**Hamish Watson could not have done any more to nail down a British and Irish Lions slot, according to his Edinburgh coach Richard Cockerill, after being named the Guinness Six Nations player of the tournament.** Wayne Pivac led Wales to this year’s championship but it is the Scotland flanker who has been named the tournament’s top performer following a public vote. The Dark Blues’ scavenger-in-chief beat off competition from Welsh title-winning pair Louis Rees-Zammit and Taulupe Faletau to land the prize, with Ireland duo Tadhg Beirne (Munster) and Robbie Henshaw (Leinster) plus France’s star scrum-half and last year’s player of the tournament Antoine Dupont also among those in the running.
