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News | January 26, 2015 | news
Five months after winning the Women's Rugby World Cup, and days before the start of the 2015 Women's Six Nations, it has been announced that Gary Street has stepped down as coach of the England women's rugby team. Graham Smith, his assistant, will lead the team in the upcoming tournament after which he, too, will leave.
News | January 25, 2015 | news
French TV’s much-anticipated “24 hours of women’s sport” included two games from the Top 8 last weekend, with both games decided by a single score.
Powerful finisher Honey Hireme is one of 19 players handed New Zealand women's sevens contracts this week as she returns to the game after a break in 2014, when she represented the Black Ferns at the World Cup
The first appearence of women's rugby in a tournament run by the Commonwealth Games Foundation will take place at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa between 5th and 11th September.
News | January 23, 2015 | news
The 15s game in Australia has received a significant boost with the reintroduction of the Australian Rugby Union’s National Women’s XVs Championship which will be held in Sydney in June.
A raft of post-World Cup retirements and an emphasis on sevens means that the French squad for the opening two games against Scotland and Ireland in this year’s Six Nations will be very different to the team that finished third in last summer’s World Cup.
News | January 21, 2015 | news
Although (for most teams) there are now three games to play, we can now be pretty certain who the four teams who will play-off for the French championship in the spring.
News | January 20, 2015 | news
Ireland name 12 uncapped players in their 30-player Six Nations squad as well as seven players who are contracted to the country's newly established sevens contracted programme.
Italy are taking no chances in their effort to qualify for the next World Cup in 2017. That is the clear message from the 30-player squad that they have selected for this year’s Six Nations.
News | January 18, 2015 | news
Kayla McAlister was on fire at the weekend has she led Auckland to lift the title of the Bayleys National Sevens tournament in Rotorua today.
England star Maggie Alphonsi brought the curtain down on her superb career as she helped her club side Saracens to their first English Premiership title since 2009.
News | January 15, 2015 | news
Pete Steinberg is to continue in the role of USA Women’s Eagles head coach through the next Women’s Rugby World Cup cycle to 2017.