The odds swing Bookmakers across the world were hard at it yesterday, reassessing their odds on a Bristol Bears’ win in the 2024-25 PWR league. In their estimation Bears will win all their remaining games by a margin. Their competitiors might as well give up the chase. News of Ilona Maher’s signing has sent shudders
Ilona Maher has signed a short-term contract with Bristol Bears. This news is no sort of shock, but it introduces all manner of reactions. Here’s a conversation I overheard on a Bristol bus: Q. Why does the PWR allow players to join clubs that don’t need strengthening? Bears are the best, the strongest club in
PWR Round 8 – Sunday Match Of course it does, but we need to see how that claim is working out. The two winless sides met in Lancashire. This is where the heart of the PWR must be; Sale Sharks and Leicester Tigers fighting for their self-respect. Sharks put up a perfectly decent performance, scoring
Three games here. Saturday saw two London sides hosting. Both Sarries and Quins were anxious to ensure every point; one of the top five clubs was going to face bitter disappointment come the season’s end. For the present they could take advantage against two sides pitched a distance behind them. Quins v Trailfinders Trailfinders conceded
Ilona Maher (USA) has received official PWR backing from Genevieve Shore, the chair, for a visa application that would allow her to join one of its clubs. The two thought likeliest are Gloucester-Hartpury and Bristol Bears, who sit third and fourth in the league table at present. Of course it’s perfectly possible that other clubs
Harlequins Head Coach Ross Chisholm has named his side to face Trailfinders Women at The Stoop on Saturday, making three changes to the side who toppled Saracens last Sunday. The side is bolstered by the return of newly crowned World Player of the Year, Ellie Kildunne. The front-row remains unchanged, with Silvia Turani at tighthead
Megan Davey will become only the second player in Loughborough Lightning history to reach 100 appearances when she runs out against Saracens this weekend. The 24-year-old has been selected at scrum-half in an unchanged Lightning starting line-up as Premiership Women’s Rugby’s fifth and sixth placed teams meet in a Round 8 encounter at The StoneX
This should really be a question, not a command from Dick Turpin. But the latest statement to emerge from PWR announces a link with a leading provider of statistics, Oval Insights. That will be a great help to clubs, coaches and players. Fans too may find pleasing indications of how their club is progressing. Were
Exeter Chiefs centre Alex Tessier has today welcomed a new partnership between Premiership Women’s Rugby and rugby’s leading data and analytics provider, Oval Insights Tessier who was named on World Rugby’s shortlist for World Player of the Year, was the leading points-scorer at WXV, and in the PWR, she has helped take Exeter Chiefs eight
The two Saturday matches were coloured by dreadful weather, high winds and heavy rain. Loughborough Lightning v Leicester Tigers I wonder if Leicestershire’s Tigers saw the irony of calling this game their ‘Derby’ day – wrong by one county! Scoring was more plentiful here than in the other game at Bristol. Tess Feury got the
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