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from ScrumQueens: ENGLAND Clear favourites, the reigning champions go into the competition this year in ominous form. England have played 13 times since the last 6 Nations, and in the process have picked up an array of titles including the Nations Cup and a convincing test series over New Zealand. Perhaps more importantly though England [...]

from Rugby Network: Through RFU.com, the match on March 17th at Esher RFC will be available at www.rfu.com/englandwomenlive ahead of the 2.00pm kick off. Users will be able to watch the match live and then in full for up to three days after the match, while highlights of England’s games against Scotland, Italy and Ireland will also be [...]

The annual Six Nations Tournament is here again! Last year, England ripped through the competition and easily defeated Ireland by 31 points in the Grand Slam Final. England has won the title twelve times out of sixteen tournaments, so one would think they would repeat! Schedule 2011 Results 2010 Results 2009 Results 2008 Results Rosters [...]

from Scrumqueens: The year following the Women’s Rugby World Cup is normally fairly quiet as teams regroup and rebuild, and this year has been no different. Just 54 test matches were played in 2011, making it the quietest year for women’s test rugby since 2005. However, fears that the lure of Olympic rugby would mean [...]

from Irish Rugby: Ireland Women’s head coach Philip Doyle has named an extended squad of 44 players for autumn training, as preparations begin for next year’s Six Nations campaign. The players have been chosen from clubs and provinces around the country along with a number of Exile players.They will now begin a 10-week strength and [...]

Coaches from the RBS Six Nations participating Unions have thrown their support behind the IRB’s commitment to address scrum issues at the elite level of the Game. Currently 60% of all scrums collapse in Tier 1 internationals and 40% of scrums are required to be reset while the average time taken to complete a scrum [...]

If you are in DC this is great news! If not, check out the matches on BBC America. from my inbox: Hi Wendy, Just for any rugby lovers in DC, we have just secured the all Six Nations games and will screen them. We didn’t want to charge a cover but Premium sports has a [...]

Welcome to another year of women’s International rugby! Our USA women’s 7s team will be playing in the USA Sevens International next weekend and the USA 15s had a camp in Florida last month. But we aren’t the only active nation, the European countris of the rugby world are ramping up for Six Nations during [...]