News that Aoife Wafer’s knee injury makes it unlikely she will recover in time for the World Cup is disastrous for her and her nation. Even the knock-out stages in eight weeks’ time make a full recovery highly unlikely. With this latest misfortune Ireland lose a third vital member of the back five. We already
Premiership Women’s Rugby partners with eToro and launches the ‘eToro Try of the Week’ Award Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) is proud to announce an exciting new partnership with leading global trading and investing platform, eToro. Building on its sponsorship of Premiership Men’s Rugby, with whom they have partnered with since 2023, this new partnership with
Pool A: England, USA, Australia, Samoa England: red-hot favourites, but could they be oppressed by thoughts of another failure, when they possess all the trump cards? USA: they are desperate to make their mark again (last win 1991). Americans prefer winners. World Rugby needs them to prosper to advance the spread of the global game.
Transformational moment for Premiership Women’s Rugby with all matches live for the 2025-26 Season and beyond. In light of today’s announcement of the agreement to show one game per week on BBC Sport, Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) is proud to announce that, for the first time in league history, every single league match will be
BBC Sport is expanding its women’s rugby coverage with a new deal to broadcast Premiership Women’s Rugby matches across the 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons. Fans can look forward to a live match every week of the season – plus one semi final and the final – all streamed live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC
The first ever tour of New Zealand still lies two years away, in September 2027. But current events in Australia highlight the difficulties of extending the women’s venture beyond that first visit. Let’s imagine it proving a rip-roaring success: huge crowds boost the Black Ferns to a runaway 3-0 victory over the much vaunted Lions,
Sione Fukofuka has taken the unusual step of announcing his Eagles squad very early (full list below). With typically American verve the news came via a ceremony aired on YouTube. Brilliant! The strategy is curious since he summoned forty players together for a final training meet in Maryland on 10 July, and there is still
Next Friday 25 July sees the announcement of the 32 Black Ferns to fly to England. There are the usual dead certs, plus a number of chancier choices Allan Bunting has to make. Some Kiwi fans may well expect their favourite team, never called New Zealand at home, to win yet another pot. Others, taking
A. The first squad announced The USA Eagles became the first union to announce their squad: Kate Zackary (C); Erica Jarrell-Searcy; Emerson Allen; Hallie Taufoou; Maya Learned; Rachel Ehrecke; Tahlia Brody; Rachel Johnson; Paige Stathopolous; Alivia Leatherman; Catie Benson; Hope Cooper; Charli Jacoby; Freda Tafuna; Georgie Perris-Redding; Kathryn Tredder; Keia Mae Sagapolu; Hope Rogers Cheta
Back in the days when ScrumQueens was our bible, the admirable John Birch pointed out severe shortcomings in World Rugby’s rankings table. Without his ongoing assistance, I have to take it at face value. Fortunately very little has changed over the past weeks, since the sixteen qualified nations have devoted themselves largely to training. South
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