Loughborough Lightning can confirm six players will be leaving the club upon the conclusion of Sunday’s Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby clash with Saracens Women. The cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens encounter is the African Violets’ final game of the 2023/24 campaign as they seek to sign off the season with a third consecutive victory following
A few hours after the test match in Auckland, we were transported to North London for another game that was a test match in all but name. As you watched this top-table clash, you had to wonder how either side might have got on if they’d been in North Harbour too. Could G-H have beaten
Harlequins Head Coach Amy Turner has named her side to face Bristol Bears Women on Saturday 25 May in the fourth instalment of Quins’ landmark women’s fixture – The Game Changer. In the front-row, Italian loosehead Silvia Turani returns to the Starting XV alongside Springbok Women’s captain Babalwa Latsha and Welsh hooker Carys Phillips. The
Loughborough Lightning have made four changes to their starting line-up for this weekend’s penultimate round of the Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby season away at Trailfinders Women. The African Violets travel to the capital fresh from a bonus-point victory over Harlequins and another five-point haul on Saturday (kick-off: 12.30pm) will secure fifth place in the final
This was an unusual round – three Sunday games, and only one on Saturday. But it marked a turning-point in the 2023-24 season. Gloucester-Hartpury claimed an unbeatable first place after demolishing Trailfinders. The other Sunday games also showed big wins; the one shock being a heavy defeat at home for Chiefs, Sarries’ first ever win
Round 15, the first since the Six Nations, ended like this: Harlequins 47 Leicester Tigers 12 Loughborough Lightning 26 Gloucester-Hartpury 61 Saracens 54 Sale Sharks 21 Trailfinders Women 10 Exeter Chiefs 40 (Bristol Bears weren’t able to play; you know why.) It was hot! I haven’t typed that word for a month or three. Scoring
FOUR rounds to go… Marlie Packer is back… Abby Dow returns, in a new position… Scarratt and Kabeya in for Lightning…Mo Hunt and Zoe Aldcroft captain Gloucester-Hartpury… Bea Rigoni slots in at 13 for Sharks…Olympian Celia Quansah makes her Tigers debut.. Harlequins match doubles up as Harlequins’ annual Access Day After a Six Nations Grand Slam
Loughborough Lightning welcome back five of their Guinness Women’s Six Nations stars to their starting side for their return to Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby action this weekend. Fresh from helping the Red Roses to a sixth successive title, Sadia Kabeya packs down at openside flanker and Emily Scarratt features at outside centre for Sunday’s showdown
Harlequins Head Coach Amy Turner has named her side to face Leicester Tigers at The Stoop on Saturday, as Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby resumes for the final four rounds of the season. Saturday’s game doubles up as the Club’s annual Access Day, providing a steppingstone for disabled people to attend live sporting events and delivers
Loughborough Lightning have locked in England Under-20 internationals Lia Green and Carmela Morrall on extended contracts. Both players featured in the Red Roses’ victory over Wales at the weekend and have committed their Club futures to the African Violets beyond the 2023/24 campaign. The pair of 19-year-olds add to the growing number of players committing
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