Source: World Rugby

England weaknesses exposed

A huge crowd at a breezy Brighton watched England start their last group-stage match with a string of errors. Was it nerves, or over-confidence or wrong selections? Amy Cokayne failed to find her line-out target three times; Meg Jones threw two wild passes. As they regained possession in deep defence, they ran the ball out

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Source: England Rugby

Barbie® and England Rugby’s Red Roses Join Forces

England Rugby’s women’s team, the Red Roses, today announces a partnership with Mattel Inc.’s Barbie® brand ahead of a huge summer for women’s sport in the UK. Marking Barbie UK’s first-ever partnership with a sports team, the collaboration aims to inspire the next generation of female rugby players through grassroots initiatives, funding, merchandise, and powerful

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Source: World Rugby

England can play even after supper-time

The Red Roses achieved their sixteenth consecutive win over France in a strangely shaped match in Mont-de-Marsan. For once les Bleues failed to score a single try. They depended on Morgane Bourgeois’ boot for their points. More striking was England’s reversion to type: the style that caused so much dissension up to the last RWC

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Source: World Rugby

England – the road ahead

Most Red Rose fans have firm ideas about their preferences for the big games to come. Let’s look at the dilemmas facing the selectors. The France game next weekend will be infinitely tougher than the show at Leicester. There a few lionesses were slaughtered as surely as the wretched bull in a Spanish bull-ring. After

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Source: Stu Vincent

A response to late news

I don’t enjoy being proved right At least it’s only once, not twice. In my review of the Red Roses World Cup squad I queried the lack of props, five not six. That has not yet proved a major blow. But now that Claudia Moloney-Macdonald has a minor leg niggle, it exposes the lack of options

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Red Roses’ warm-up matches to be co-streamed

The Red Roses’ upcoming Test matches will be co-streamed on England Rugby YouTube and BBC iPlayer and website. John Mitchell’s side will prepare for the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup with a home fixture against Spain at Mattioli Woods Welford Road, Leicester, on Saturday 2nd August (KO 3pm BST) and an away encounter with France on Saturday 9th August

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