RWC warm-ups

[Which Tyler]

Probably best to keep 1 thread for all of them, unless it ends up being too busy.
England v Spain in Leicester
Sat 02/08, 3.00

Should be on iPlayer, or here (legal):

[Which Tyler]

[Which Tyler]

Anyone else?

[Which Tyler]

Never good to hear a player scream in pain during a ruck

[Mr Mwenda]

Anyone else?

At the athletics, might catch the end of the red roses.

[Which Tyler]

Ireland 12 Scotland 14
HT

England 43 Spain 0
HT

[Which Tyler]

Ireland 27 Scotland 21
FT

Spain are on the board, but England are comfortably winning their race with the clock.
Professionals versus amateurs innit
England 76 Spain 7
60 min
Bringing on Muir and Dowe now just feels cruel

[Which Tyler]

Red for that? I'm not even sure it was illegal - certainly never targeting the knee, even if she did end up there

[fivepointer]

Packer red (harsh) might even things up a bit.

Basically this is a useful training run for England, who do look remarkably fit and powerful. But they are pro's.

[Mr Mwenda]

Caught the last five minutes. Seemed just a training run really.

[Lizard]

NZ have put their RWC squad in cotton wool and put the Extra Bs out against SA. So they got whumped.

[Which Tyler]

Red Roses team to play France
Saturday 9th, 8.10pm
iPlayer, BBC Red Button, or RFU's YouTube (link below)

1 Hannah Botterman (Bristol Bears, 57 caps)
2 Amy Cokayne (Sale Sharks, 83 caps)
3 Maud Muir (Gloucester-Hartpury, 41 caps)
4 Morwenna Talling (Sale Sharks, 22 caps)
5 Abbie Ward (Bristol Bears, 75 caps)
6 Zoe Aldcroft (Gloucester-Hartpury, 64 caps) – captain
7 Sadia Kabeya (Loughborough Lightning, 22 caps)
8 Alex Matthews (Gloucester-Hartpury, 75 caps)

09 Natasha Hunt (Gloucester-Hartpury, 81 caps)
10 Zoe Harrison (Saracens, 58 caps)
11 Jess Breach (Saracens, 46 caps)
12 Tatyana Heard (Gloucester-Hartpury, 30 caps)
13 Megan Jones (Trailfinders Women, 26 caps)
14 Abby Dow (Unattached, 53 caps)
15 Ellie Kildunne (Harlequins, 52 caps)

16 Lark Atkin-Davies (Bristol Bears, 67 caps)
17 Kelsey Clifford (Saracens, 14 caps)
18 Sarah Bern?(Bristol Bears, 72 caps)
19 Rosie Galligan (Saracens, 24 caps)
20 Maddie Feaunati (Exeter Chiefs, 16 caps)
21 Lucy Packer (Harlequins, 32 caps)
22 Helena Rowland (Loughborough Lightning, 40 caps)
23 Emma Sing (Gloucester-Hartpury, 9 caps)




Ireland v Canada also on Saturday, 12.00 KO
Also available on iPlayer and BBC Red Button + BBC Northern Ireland

[Mr Mwenda]

Canada currently much better than Ireland today. Bit of a training run unless the Irish cop on a bit.

C'mon canucks!

[Which Tyler]

TBF, you'd expect Canada to be significantly better.
They're not ranked in 2nd place; a full 10 ranking points ahead of Ireland, just for a lauch

Men's equivalent would be NZ v Argentina

[Mr Mwenda]

Sure, but Ireland are not playing like they can.

Better this half. Canada doing some daft things to not relieve pressure.

[Mr Mwenda]

Wow, whatever was said in the Canadian dressing room at half time, they need need to not say that again. Total lack of composite and ideas. Fair play to Ireland for going for it!

[Which Tyler]

Oooh look, Ellie tried to do it herself, rather than passing the ball.
Love her, but she's going to need to add that variety to keep defences honest.

[Which Tyler]

Excellent maul

Fra 0 - 12 Eng
15 min

[Which Tyler]

Hmmm, knee injury for the THP, in a "friendly" 2 weeks before a RWC...

Why even try to run it off? Surely it's not worth the risk.



England KO trying to bash away at the line or want a French Yellow

[Which Tyler]

Team yellow goes to M Feleu, just too many pen.s fair enough, and final warning had been given

Fra 0 - 12 Eng
30 min

[Which Tyler]

Fra 6 - 26 Eng

48 min


Good quick pen by Mo sents Meg over unopposed