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What to watch in women’s rugby: England, Wales join Quad Series

By Martyn Thomas

50 days ago

England's Steph Else leads her side out against Wales during the Six Nations Women's Summer Series between Wales and England at the Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi in Parma, Italy, Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 (Photo by Ben Brady / Inpho)

Hosts Wales and England enter the fray as the Transatlantic Quad Series moves south from Ystrad Mynach to Cardiff for Friday’s second round.

Canada and USA got the U20s tournament underway at the Centre for Sporting Excellence last Sunday with the former running out deserved 23-10 winners.

Ria Johnston, Ava van Santen and Adelaide Holmes (twice) each crossed the whitewash for Canada before Grace Jacklyn added a late penalty.

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On Friday, Canada will take on an England side made up of primarily of players who graduated from their U18 programme last year and members of the U20 squad who didn’t travel to Parma for the recent Six Nations Women’s Series.

England beat Ireland 33-10 and Wales 55-24 in northern Italy before suffering a 72-21 defeat to France on the final day.

The squad for Friday’s match against Canada will be led by England U18 Women’s head coach James Cooper.

Wales, meanwhile, were beaten 57-12 by France in their opening match in Parma before letting a 14-5 half-time lead against Italy slip in their final match, going on to lose 33-19 against the hosts.

Liza Burgess’ side will hope they come out on the right side of the result on Friday, having suffered an agonising 28-27 defeat to USA on their North America tour last summer.

You can watch all the action unfold at Cardiff Arms Park live and for free on RugbyPass TV.

Friday, July 19th

17:30 BST (GMT+1) – England v Canada, Cardiff Arms Park – WATCH LIVE HERE
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Star Red Rose Kildunne opens up

Series three of Stronger Than You Think continues apace as England star Ellie Kildunne joins Jodie Ounsley and Ashleigh Wilmot in the studio.

Harlequins full-back Kildunne scored an incredible nine tries during the 2024 Guinness Women’s Six Nations to help the Red Roses to another Grand Slam and earn the Player of the Championship gong.

She is aiming to take that form into the Olympics as part of the Great Britain squad aiming for gold at Paris 2024 having returned to the sevens set-up for the Games.

Off the pitch, meanwhile, Kildunne is developing her talent for photography and has become a leading member of the cowboy ‘movement’ that has swept the Red Roses camp and among their supporters.

Find out more about her journey in the game and where it might lead in the latest episode on RugbyPass TV.

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SJ 13 minutes ago

What the Springboks must do to reach Richie McCaw levels

As a South African, I really dont care if we better than the Richie McCaw All blacks. I am just happy the that we have acheived allot, Its different eras, I would like the consistency that AB team had, but keep in mind, the only team that even competed against that All Black was the Springboks, besides that, there is no competition, The current springbok team is competing against, probably the greatest era in French and Irish rugby, an England team that can beat anyone in world rugby when they get it right on the day, and well..... The All Blacks, Not taking away from them at all, the All black team from then was the most dominent team in world sports.

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EQ 1 hour ago

What the Springboks must do to reach Richie McCaw levels

DC000 you are incorrect on many issues. Firstly the Boks have won the past RWC back to back. Neither Ireland nor the All Blacks of this era have achieved this.

You are extremely rude to refer to the "third world thickos" who are that bright, etc. Either you forget that some of the most intelligent people are from South Africa like Elon Musk or you are from a "first world country" such as England or Australia. Please don't be condescending because this shows your lack of class and intelligence.

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EQ 1 hour ago

Assistant coach’s warning for Springboks as All Blacks look to bounce back

The game will be decided in the forwards battle and once again the Boks are stronger with a stronger albeit reduced bench of five forwards. Boks to win by a bigger margin of 10 to 12 points.

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snr.star 3 hours ago

Scott Robertson set to unleash ‘world-class’ winger against Springboks

Agree entirely...both these wingers are good, but way behind the pace of Will Jordan or Riko Ioane who is totally wasted trying to run thru people in the midfield

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SadersMan 3 hours ago

It’s second chance Saturday for Ireland in men's world rankings

lol

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JW 4 hours ago

Can Joe Schmidt create an 'Australian Way' punters will embrace?

If you want to look at it that way, yes of course it has examples of things that have 'worked' for them. But once you have 'looked at it' you find that there is no way for that to be a lesson (other than building it from scratch obviously). You have obviously read the other places views on trying to transplant the Shute's teams somewhere else. Anything along those lines are not going to be an outcome that strengthens the fans support, and might in fact split it even further.

I do have to add that it was what I thought would be a simple solution too, and although you do hear a lot of very sensible opinion on that other site I have yet to see any viable data that says "Randwick has a support base of x with y potential growth which translates to known financially viable sports entity Roosters" or who ever. The City's League counterpart for instance covers all eastern subs (obviously Randwick doesn't), did it start like that or did the Rooster have to kill off all the local competition to slowly win the required fan base (metro area size) to become sustainable at the top?

You surely have an answer to how much of X sports talent should be locally produced, compared to how much of it is to be asked to play for a club they have no affiliation with (just hired entertainment sports guns), before it dilutes in a meaningless 'front' that you might as well just form from scratch and in a much model than trying to play jigsaw puzzles with the current environment? With current technology changes I think it would be more likely success could be from having lots of 'shute shield' level rugby filmed by AI drones following a tracker, and value coming from people being invested in more meaningful rugby to them, rather than following the French model and people from the area of Sydney being asked to choose which (2 or) 3 Shute teams they want to support going pro.

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Jim Taylor 4 hours ago

All Blacks lose their ‘Pieter-Steph’ for Freedom Cup decider against Boks

Struggling to see the hype around the man. His pressure game is very good. Sure, he gets up in defence but he struggles to make dominant tackles. He doesn’t bend the gainline. He’s constantly injured. But alas he’s a Crusader, so SR will pick him.

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Forward pass 4 hours ago

All Blacks lose their ‘Pieter-Steph’ for Freedom Cup decider against Boks

Yes its more the "freedom for a select few" cup.

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Forward pass 4 hours ago

All Blacks lose their ‘Pieter-Steph’ for Freedom Cup decider against Boks

PTSD aint no Ferrari or Escort. More like a Morris minor that needs a restoration, and Blackadder is a skate board thats always needing repairs.

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Forward pass 4 hours ago

Scott Robertson explains benching TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett

And would have beaten SA except a TMO cant see.

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JW 5 hours ago

Can Joe Schmidt create an 'Australian Way' punters will embrace?

Yeah true true, the way you describe Australia was exactly more point too. Even on this side there isn't much "living culture" so trying to impart that here with our stars showing up on home and away is going to make them the laughing stock of sport.

SA seems to have a lot more forms of swallowing entertainment as well. Britain not so much, I'd say if you tried to veer away from the football model you'd be a hard sell? Still some very very low numbers following rugby in England. Razor has been getting some heavy stick this last week for his media work, and he's supposed to be the most 'public' or available going around!

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B 5 hours ago

What the Springboks must do to reach Richie McCaw levels

McCaw was not the strongest or the fastest or the most skilful player of his era. He was clearly a physically gifted athlete. What made him great was his ability to understand and read the game he was playing in and how to influence it, as a whole, meaning his teammates, his opponents, the officials, the occasion, all of it. He was a rugby savant.

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JW 5 hours ago

Can Joe Schmidt create an 'Australian Way' punters will embrace?

Is the picture a bit different because it wasn't that 'creative' a decade ago? One could argue the same move happened against SA last month, just 10 years on it looks different now?

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MattJH 5 hours ago

Assistant coach’s warning for Springboks as All Blacks look to bounce back

Someone will win this game by 15-20 points.