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It’s getting annoying now

I attempted to read another article on the Women’s World Cup yesterday, that someone had tagged as interesting – it started with something like – let’s face it women are not as good at football as men and this could be proven because the women’s team could never beat Roy Hodgson’s men’s team …  Now

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Source: World Rugby

Rugby Sets Up Home on Rio’s iconic Copacabana Beach

World Rugby and the Brazilian Rugby Confederation (CBRu) have inaugurated Brazil’s first ever semi-permanent beach rugby pitch on the iconic Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. As part of World Rugby’s Olympic Day celebrations, children and young people from local social projects, schools and clubs were invited to the opening of the pitch, which will

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Women’s World Cup : Quarter Final Draw

The last eight teams are now known and some interesting matches are thrown up.  China will make the USA work, but can they overcome the strong USA team? Germany v France is perhaps the pick of the ties with both teams hitting form, Germany have in their side the two leading scorers of the tournament so far;

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Source: World Rugby

Record numbers of children Get Into Rugby

Rugby has joined the global sporting family in celebrating #OlympicDay as World Rugby announces that record numbers of children are getting active and getting into rugby. With more than 7.2 million players getting active across 120 national member unions, World Rugby’s Get Into Rugby mass participation programme attracted a record 460,000 children in 2014 and

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A little bit of history!

England claimed their place in the quarter finals with an emphatic second half performance against Norway last night. As predicted, and perhaps dreaded, the first half was a cagey affair and England played with just Toni Duggan fighting a lost cause up front, isolated and losing out constantly to the solid Norwegian defence.  England struggled

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Women’s Rugby League Round Up – 21 June 2015

This weekend Selby Warriors were at home to Featherstone Rovers and it was the travelling side who had the edge to grab a 34-10 win. Featherstone’s Emma Dobson-Slowe led the way with two tries to her name and there were further tries for; Hannah Barstow, Jasmine Roley, Sinead Peach and Katie Cooper-Birkenhead. Birkenhead added further

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