Head coach James Cooper has named his 12-player England Sevens squad to play in the Rugby Europe U18 7s Championship in Prague (23 and 24 July). All matches will be played at Rugby Klub Petrovice and will be streamed live on www.rugbyeurope.eu The competition is made up of three pools of three teams each. Drawn
Full 40-team line-up for Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 is now confirmed The last eight tickets to Cape Town – four men’s and four women’s – were decided at the RWC Sevens 2022 Europe Qualifier in Bucharest Spain, England, Poland and Ireland claimed their places in the women’s tournament Wales, Germany, Portugal and Ireland secured
Harlequins has announced that Scottish international duo Jade Konkel-Roberts and Sarah Bonar have re-signed with Harlequins ahead of the 2022/23 season. Both forwards are set to feature at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in the coming months and will return to Quins as the side prepares for the 2022/23 Allianz Premier 15s season.
Head coach James Rodwell has named his England Women Sevens squad for their Rugby Europe World Cup qualifying tournament at National Rugby Stadium Arcul de Triumf, in Bucharest (16-17 July). Drawn in Pool B, England take on hosts Romania, Italy and Belgium with all matches streamed on RugbyEurope.tv. The tournament is made up of three
Harlequins Women are have announced that Lauren Brooks, Chloe Edwards and Jenny Kronish have re-signed with the Club ahead of the 2022/23 season. Club stalwarts Brooks and Edwards will be entering their fifth and sixth season respectively at Quins, aiming to win back the Allianz Premier 15s title after falling short in the semi-finals against Saracens
The French have outlined their programme for the run-in to the World Cup. They mean business. It isn’t so much the two warm-up games announced (see below), it is the intensive sequence of training sessions that precede it. Annick Hayraud often mentioned the lack of time the staff had in assembling the full group for
Harlequins has announced the appointment of a new Women’s coaching structure ahead of the 2022/23 season as the Club forms one of the most comprehensive Women’s rugby programmes in the country. Current England Women U20s Head Coach and Performance Pathway Officer Amy Turner has been appointed as Harlequins’ Women’s new Head Coach, leading the team
The WRU has announced more contracts and new terms for the head coach, Ioan Cunningham. This is just the sort of news that boosts confidence as the Welsh squad prepares for the World Cup. There are five new full contracts, for Alex Callender, Cara Hope, Caryl Thomas, Liliana Podpadec and Megan Webb. Robyn Wilkins has
The Future of the Premier 15s The working party looking into the future of the Premier 15s has been thinking big, thinking long. Gone is the pattern of 3-year cycles used twice since 2017, to be replaced by a 10-year plan. And the sums involved are far larger than anything contemplated before. The RFU’s commitiment
The England Women’s Rugby squad are returning to the University of Bath this week for the first of three mini training camps as they continue to fine-tune their preparations for this Autumn’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. It is the second successive year that the Red Roses have trained at the University and they
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