Women’s Rugby

England Women’s team named to take on Italy in RBS 6 Nations

England Women’s team named to take on Italy in RBS 6 Nations

England Women’s Head Coach Gary Street has rung the changes ahead of Sunday’s Six Nations clash against Italy, kick off 2pm GMT, at the Centro Sportivo in Parabiago, Milan.                                              On the back of England’s opening nine try, 47-0, victory against Scotland, England head to Italy in confident spirits. Lichfield Number 8 Sarah Hunter will...
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England Women open Six Nations campaign with a flyer against Scotland

England Women open Six Nations campaign with a flyer against Scotland

England Women ran in nine tries in their opening RBS 6 Six Nations clash of the championship against Scotland on Sunday night at Lasswade RFC, with Michaela Staniford and Katherine Merchant touching down for braces of tries.  The defending champions, gunning for a record seventh title, braved freezing cold conditions to dominate their Scottish...
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England skipper eager to kick off Six Nations campaign

England skipper eager to kick off Six Nations campaign

Sunday February 5th sees England Women kick off their defence of their RBS 6 Nations crown and England skipper Katy McLean says she can’t wait to get started again. England take on Scotland at Lasswade RFC on Sunday, 5pm kick off, and as defending Grand Slam champions gunning for a record breaking seventh consecutive...
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England women unbeaten in series win over NZ

England women unbeaten in series win over NZ

England Women’s had to settle for a draw in the final match of the three-test series against world champions New Zealand today (Saturday) with the Black Ferns denying England a clean sweep of wins as they held them to a 8-8 draw at Esher RFC. The final Test, which saw England go in 2-0...
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England women’s team for series finale with NZ

England Women’s Head Coach Gary Street has made nine changes, two of which are positional, to the team that defeated world champions New Zealand for a second successive game on Tuesday for Saturday’s final match of the three-test series at Esher RFC, kick off 2pm. Bristol’s Sophie Hemming returns to the starting line-up at...
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England women secure back to back wins over World Champions

England Women secured back to back victories over New Zealand for the first time ever tonight (Tuesday) following a dominant 21-7 victory at Esher RFC. Following Saturday’s 10-0 win over New Zealand at Twickenham Stadium England followed up that win with a three try effort despite making 11 changes to the starting line-up. Wing...
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Black Ferns named for second test

Black Ferns Coach Grant Hansen has named his team to face the second of three Tests England tomorrow morning (Wednesday NZT) at Esher RFC. Hansen has made several changes to his starting line-up after the Black Ferns suffered a disappointing 10-0 loss in the first Test at Twickenham.  The defeat came at a high...
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England women whitewash Black Ferns

England women whitewash Black Ferns

England Women put behind them the heartache of losing the 2010 Rugby World Cup final tonight (Saturday) by defeating the world champions, New Zealand, 10-0 at Twickenham Stadium. Gary Street’s side, who last took on the Black Ferns 14 months ago and lost 13-10, controlled a superb game at the home of England Rugby...
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England Women’s team announced to take on the world champions at Twickenham

England Women’s team announced to take on the world champions at Twickenham

England Women’s Head Coach Gary Street has named his side to take on the reigning world champions, New Zealand, on Saturday at Twickenham Stadium, kick off 5pm. Street has included 12 survivors from the 2010 Rugby World Cup in his starting line-up with a further two world cup players on the bench. England last...
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Black Ferns to play England named

Black Ferns Coach Grant Hansen has named the team to face England for their first of three clashes on Sunday morning (NZT) at Twickenham. Two of the squad’s eight new faces – lock Eloise Blackwell (Auckland) and winger Shakira Baker (Wellington) – will earn their first Test caps after being picked into the starting...
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