Women’s Shield Final – Whitley Bay Barbarians vs Thatto Heath St Helens Reserves On Sunday Whitley Bay Barbarians faced off against Thatto Heath St Helens Reserves in the Women’s Shield Final. Thatto Heath came out firing and inside the first few minutes following a break from Danni Bound the ball was moved wide and Lydia Binstead
The County Championships has undergone a restructure across the senior men, women and U20 County Championships with fixtures now announced for the new season. Following a successful inaugural competition this year, which received overwhelming support from the counties and players, the Women’s County Championship will be expanded for 2017 with 26 teams competing across two
Bradford Bulls’ Provident Stadium will host a day of firsts on Sunday 31st July as the the 2016 Women’s Challenge Cup & Challenge Shield Finals Day take place. The Women’s Challenge Shield will kick off proceedings at 1pm, with Whitley Bay Barbarians taking on Thatto Heath-St Helens Reserves. Then, at 3pm, Thatto Heath could be
World Rugby is pleased to announce that tickets for the World Rugby Conference and Exhibition 2016 (ConfEx) are now on sale. The event, which will bring together leading figures and decision-makers from across rugby and the wider world of sport, is taking place on 14-15 November at the Hilton London Metropole. ConfEx 2016 will offer
Super 6 round 5 and the visitors to Big Fellas Stadium and Featherstone Rovers were Bradford Bulls Women. Playing down the slope Featherstone received the kick off and immediately showed their intention, with a strong set of drives down field. Ten metres out from the try line Amy Smith put in a cross field kick, on
On Sunday Wigan St Patricks hosted Thatto Heath St Helens and it was the visiting side who emerged with a 36-4 win. Thatto’s Tara Stanley an Emily Rudge both scored two tries each. Sammi Simpson, Jodie Cunningham and Faye Gaskin all scored one each with Fay Gaskin also adding two goals to completed the win
The stars of rugby sevens are on the home straight of the road to Rio 2016 following confirmation of the men’s and women’s squads who will represent rugby, and their nation, on sport’s biggest stage for the first time in 92 years. With interest and excitement high throughout the global rugby community, National Olympic Committees,
In ground-breaking news for women’s rugby, England Rugby have announced that professional player contracts will be awarded for the 15-a-side game for the first time as part of their on-going commitment to the professionalisation of women’s rugby. England Women first awarded contracts to 20 sevens players in October 2014. Now there will be 48 player contracts for
O2 Touch programme has grown by 34% since Rugby World Cup 2015 Currently 321 O2 Touch centres nationwide England Rugby today announced its O2 Touch programme has successfully reached and surpassed its target of introducing 15,000 registered players to the game by summer 2017. Tracking one year ahead of its intended deadline there are now
A place in the history books awaits Natasha Hunt (pictured above) and Amy Wilson Hardy after they today became the latest University of Bath graduates to be selected by Team GB for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The duo have been named in the first-ever GB Olympic women’s rugby sevens squad, with the sport making
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