Ahead of Sunday, when Gloucester-Hartpury get their title defence underway against Leicester Tigers - live on TNT Sports - I aquaplaned my way along the M40 to Kingsholm, and not just because Emma Sing had baked a Kinder Bueno banana bread for the ages.
Premiership Women's Rugby couldn’t have asked for much more from this year’s final as Gloucester-Hartpury and Bristol Bears combined for an 80-minute, end-to-end battle that ended 36-24 and ensured the cherry and whites would remain champions.
The line-ups for the upcoming Allianz PWR final have been confirmed, with Gloucester-Hartpury naming an unchanged side from their semi-final team and Bristol Bears making three changes.
The Gloucester-Hartpury full-back talks to RugbyPass about the impact of losing her England contract and how she bounced back to help the Circus into this Saturday's Premiership Women's Rugby final, against Bristol Bears at Sandy Park.
It’s finals week! Bristol Bears are heading into their first PWR final taking on reigning champions, Gloucester-Hartpury down at Sandy Park on Saturday 22nd June.
There, separated by just a crease and pair of staples, are the best two teams in all the land. Soon, the curtain will rise as the whistle sounds, and they won’t be separated at all.
Winger Ollie Sleightholme put his long-term injury troubles behind him by scoring two tries in Northampton’s free-scoring 36-33 victory over Harlequins at Franklin’s Gardens.
