Northern Edition

Select Edition

Northern Northern
Southern Southern
Global Global
New Zealand New Zealand
France France

Chiefs unveil new Women In Rugby Jersey

(Photo by Richard Spranger)

The limited edition 2020 Chiefs Women in Rugby Jersey was unveiled this evening ahead of the Gallagher Chiefs Investec Super Rugby fixture against the Hurricanes at FMG Stadium Waikato.

ADVERTISEMENT

The limited edition jersey design acknowledges the thousands of females both young and old, who play and support rugby.

The pink and purple tinge commemorates wahine of all levels who play and support rugby, along with connecting to the Gallagher Chiefs training jersey colours to acknowledge the importance of preparation.

The black colouring in the jersey is to acknowledge the female rugby players from the Chiefs Region who have represented New Zealand at an international level.

The triangular arrow patterns on the jersey speak to the significance of always moving forward, both on the rugby field and in the promotion of females both playing and supporting rugby.

Continue reading below…

Video Spacer

Those attending this evening’s match were the first fans to see and purchase the new limited edition jersey. The 2020 Gallagher Chiefs Women in Rugby jersey will be available to purchase online once the match has concluded. Chiefs members and sponsors were given a pre-order opportunity before the jersey was revealed.

The new jersey will be worn by the Chiefs in round ten when they face the Bulls at FMG Stadium Waikato on Saturday 4 April. Each jersey from the playing twenty-three will be signed and donated to twenty-three different schools or clubs within the Chiefs Region to help raise funds for sports equipment, travel or apparel for their female rugby teams.

ADVERTISEMENT

Chiefs Rugby Club Chief Executive Officer Michael Collins said: “We are excited to have unveiled the jersey to our members and fans attending tonight. The Club are exceptionally proud of what the jersey represents, and the Gallagher Chiefs team are honoured to be able to play in the jersey when they take on the Bulls.”

Chiefs Rugby Club General Manager Commercial said: “As an organisation with over 30% of our non-playing staff being female, we are so proud of the Gallagher Chiefs for acknowledging women in rugby with this jersey. The female contribution to our game is imperative to its success, from the females that play on the field, right through to the females that support it.”

– Chiefs Rugby

WATCH: Sky Sports’ Ross Karl heads to the beautiful Mount Maunganui to catch up with Chiefs prop Aidan Ross, who is no fan of beach volleyball!

Video Spacer
ADVERTISEMENT

LIVE

{{item.title}}

Trending on RugbyPass

Comments

0 Comments
Be the first to comment...

Join free and tell us what you really think!

Sign up for free
ADVERTISEMENT

Latest Features

Comments on RugbyPass

F
Flankly 1 hour ago
'Absolute madness': Clive Woodward rips into Borthwick in wake of NZ loss

Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".


But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.


Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?

4 Go to comments
TRENDING
TRENDING Borthwick, it's time to own up – Andy Goode Borthwick, it's time to own up – Andy Goode
Search