WXV 2 2024 moves inland this weekend as the action shifts to Athlone Sports Stadium and the race for the title intensifies. Get all the team news here.
WXV 2 2024 will get underway at DHL Stadium this weekend. Get all the team news from Cape Town here.
Italy will be without the prolific Alyssa D’Inca as they attempt to go one better than last year and win WXV 2 in South Africa.
Scotland claimed victory in Italy for the first time this century to record their second win of the Women’s Six Nations.
France moved to within a point of England at the top of the Guinness Women’s Six Nations 2024 standings with a comfortable 38-15 defeat of Italy at Stade Jean Bouin.
Italy got their first win in the 2024 Women's Six Nations as they saw off an Irish comeback to take the 27-21 victory in round two.
Just as is the case with the PWR - test match women’s rugby has never been in ruder health, but it’s certainly not perfect yet. Let’s be honest: it won’t ever be. We’ll never reach the Platonic ideal of the global game, but we can definitely hope that the year ends having seen hard-fought, lovingly-covered, and widely-enjoyed contests.
“I've learned a lot,” Turani said. “The intensity, the physicality that you have to face every week is outstanding. “And also, I think I've learnt how to manage nerves better because every game there is as organised and as planned as a Six Nations game. It’s a big thing every game with lots of crowd, thousands of people coming to every game of the season, which is really cool.
Round four proved an emotional rollercoaster with all the soars, plummets, and loop-the-loops which usually only come accompanied with the too-late realisation that you overindulged at the Pizza Hut lunchtime buffet.
England returned to the top of the Six Nations table.