Re: Women's Rugby thread
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 9:20 pm
Gloucester just beat Quins 40-36 in what sounds like the game of the season. This is why I really wished more of the games were shown
With International Women’s Day looming, the Rugby Football Union is reporting a healthy rise in female rugby participation. There are now more than 30,000 registered female players and the successful Inner Warrior recruitment campaign has seen 12,00 women attend camps nationwide, a third of whom had never picked up a rugby ball in their lives. On Saturday, in addition to a potentially decisive Six Nations showdown in Grenoble between France and England, there is an attempt to attract a world-record crowd for a women’s club rugby game when Harlequins play Richmond at the Stoop (kick-off 3pm).
Interesting no Zoe Harrison who came on as super sub for the U20 team and scored a wonder try that was ultimately the decider. Good to see Shaunagh Brown is back in the squad, I hope to see her get some game time.Backs
Abigal Dow (Wasps FC Ladies), Amber Reed (Bristol Ladies), Caity Mattinson (Bristol Ladies), Charlotte Pearce (Loughborough Lightning), Danielle Waterman (Wasps FC Ladies), Ellie Kildunne (Gloucester-Hartpury Womens RFC), Helena Rowland (Saracens Women), Katy Daley –Mclean (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Lagi Tuima (Bristol Ladies), Lauren Cattell (Saracens Women), Leanne Riley (Harlequins Ladies), Rachael Burford (Harlequins Ladies).
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Abbie Scott (Harlequins Ladies), Amy Cokayne (Wasps FC Ladies), Catherine O’Donnell (Loughborough Lightning), Heather Kerr (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Izzy Noel- Smith (Bristol Ladies), Justine Lucas (Wasps FC Ladies), Lark Davies (Worcester Valkyries), Marlie Packer (Saracens Women), Poppy Cleall (Saracens Women), Rochelle Clark (Wasps FC Ladies), Rowena Burnfield (Richmond FC), Sarah Bern (Gloucester-Hartpury Womens RFC), Sarah Hunter (Loughborough Lightning), Shaunagh Brown (Harlequins Ladies), Tamara Taylor (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Vickii Cornborough (Harlequins Ladies).
I'm quite gutted it hasn't been shown. Highlights of each match should be part of the standards for each team in the league as they have to film the matches anyway. It can only help promote the women's game. Sadly there were quite a few highlights packages and games uploaded at the start of the season, but it appears to have stopped. Same for games on TV.Nieghorn wrote:No chance that anyone from the Glos or Quins uploaded that match, eh? Sounds like it'd be worth seeing, even if it's from a single-camera analyst's perspective (i.e. my fav )
Good news. How pro is it? The English league is not pro, but trains in a pro manner but the players are not paid. But I hear the French is.Auckman wrote:http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/earl ... contracts/
NZ Womens Rugby has gone pro!
BF players to get pro contracts.
Apparently a pro competition is in the pipeline for an 8-week window over the summer months (January-Febuary) in 2019. However, nothing confirmed yet with plenty of work still to go over the commercial viability of it all.
It's noteldanielfire wrote:Good news. How pro is it? The English league is not pro, but trains in a pro manner but the players are not paid. But I hear the French is.Auckman wrote:http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/earl ... contracts/
NZ Womens Rugby has gone pro!
BF players to get pro contracts.
Apparently a pro competition is in the pipeline for an 8-week window over the summer months (January-Febuary) in 2019. However, nothing confirmed yet with plenty of work still to go over the commercial viability of it all.
Laurent wrote:It's noteldanielfire wrote:Good news. How pro is it? The English league is not pro, but trains in a pro manner but the players are not paid. But I hear the French is.Auckman wrote:http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/earl ... contracts/
NZ Womens Rugby has gone pro!
BF players to get pro contracts.
Apparently a pro competition is in the pipeline for an 8-week window over the summer months (January-Febuary) in 2019. However, nothing confirmed yet with plenty of work still to go over the commercial viability of it all.
The only pro players are the7 squad
eldanielfire wrote:I'm quite gutted it hasn't been shown. Highlights of each match should be part of the standards for each team in the league as they have to film the matches anyway. It can only help promote the women's game. Sadly there were quite a few highlights packages and games uploaded at the start of the season, but it appears to have stopped. Same for games on TV.Nieghorn wrote:No chance that anyone from the Glos or Quins uploaded that match, eh? Sounds like it'd be worth seeing, even if it's from a single-camera analyst's perspective (i.e. my fav )
Yeah, the women's league must film each match and share it with the England management. Hence how they can make the trylights. they just don't post the full matches.Nieghorn wrote:eldanielfire wrote:I'm quite gutted it hasn't been shown. Highlights of each match should be part of the standards for each team in the league as they have to film the matches anyway. It can only help promote the women's game. Sadly there were quite a few highlights packages and games uploaded at the start of the season, but it appears to have stopped. Same for games on TV.Nieghorn wrote:No chance that anyone from the Glos or Quins uploaded that match, eh? Sounds like it'd be worth seeing, even if it's from a single-camera analyst's perspective (i.e. my fav )
They could easily make each team post match video (I'm sure they all shoot something for analysis purposes at their level). It's a rule in the British Columbia men's premier league, and many women's matches will to to youtube as well.
eldanielfire wrote:Finally the famous Gloucester-Hartpury vs Harlequins epic match at the weekend highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2mMNVI-Pf4&t=3s
Shaunagh Brown hatrick for Quins. Killdunne with 2 devastating individual tries to put space for G-H to go ahead, Quins close the gap, G-H kick a penality to go 4 ahead, the game ends with Quins parked on G-Hs line but not quite about to go over.
Agreed. She makes flowing out of tackles look so easy.Nieghorn wrote:eldanielfire wrote:Finally the famous Gloucester-Hartpury vs Harlequins epic match at the weekend highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2mMNVI-Pf4&t=3s
Shaunagh Brown hatrick for Quins. Killdunne with 2 devastating individual tries to put space for G-H to go ahead, Quins close the gap, G-H kick a penality to go 4 ahead, the game ends with Quins parked on G-Hs line but not quite about to go over.
Some nice tries and clutch kicking in that. A few individuals will have to look at how they align / workrate on defence, and how they deal with fends.
Kildunne is such a lovely runner.
Yes, she just seems to glide past defenders. I think its the change of pace as much as anything; they think they've lined her up, and then she's just gone. Great to watch.Nieghorn wrote:eldanielfire wrote:Finally the famous Gloucester-Hartpury vs Harlequins epic match at the weekend highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2mMNVI-Pf4&t=3s
Shaunagh Brown hatrick for Quins. Killdunne with 2 devastating individual tries to put space for G-H to go ahead, Quins close the gap, G-H kick a penality to go 4 ahead, the game ends with Quins parked on G-Hs line but not quite about to go over.
Some nice tries and clutch kicking in that. A few individuals will have to look at how they align / workrate on defence, and how they deal with fends.
Kildunne is such a lovely runner.
Yeah, Karen Findlay. Co-coach with Gary Street there at Quins.Nieghorn wrote:Coach (Findlay is the name?) and player mic'd up at a Quins' training session.
I don't know if it's just that Myers is a delight to look at, and my eyes are drawn to her presence on screen, but I suspect the camera operator took every op to get her on film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkGQZ5b9IG4
All talk so far is only the elite players in the BF getting the contracts. The womens 7s team are already on fulltime contracts. As for the competition, I would be surprised if all the players in that competition were on fulltime contracts. I would think more along the lines of semi-pro at the most.eldanielfire wrote:Good news. How pro is it? The English league is not pro, but trains in a pro manner but the players are not paid. But I hear the French is.Auckman wrote:http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/earl ... contracts/
NZ Womens Rugby has gone pro!
BF players to get pro contracts.
Apparently a pro competition is in the pipeline for an 8-week window over the summer months (January-Febuary) in 2019. However, nothing confirmed yet with plenty of work still to go over the commercial viability of it all.
The competition is 8 weeks isn't it? Sounds like it could be that they might be paid for their time in that period.Auckman wrote:All talk so far is only the elite players in the BF getting the contracts. The womens 7s team are already on fulltime contracts. As for the competition, I would be surprised if all the players in that competition were on fulltime contracts. I would think more along the lines of semi-pro at the most.eldanielfire wrote:Good news. How pro is it? The English league is not pro, but trains in a pro manner but the players are not paid. But I hear the French is.Auckman wrote:http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/earl ... contracts/
NZ Womens Rugby has gone pro!
BF players to get pro contracts.
Apparently a pro competition is in the pipeline for an 8-week window over the summer months (January-Febuary) in 2019. However, nothing confirmed yet with plenty of work still to go over the commercial viability of it all.
eldanielfire wrote:Nieghorn porn for the first half of this video:
https://twitter.com/Harlequins/status/9 ... 6627635207
If I could hook anybody up with her, I'd be in there myself so fast I'm crack the 100m world record over a mile.Nieghorn wrote:eldanielfire wrote:Nieghorn porn for the first half of this video:
https://twitter.com/Harlequins/status/9 ... 6627635207
If you can hook a brother up... otherwise, stop torturing me! (I just did a quick search to see by how much she's likely 'too young' for me ... and her LinkedIn says she studied History and Politics at uni ... again, this is torture!)
I'm mid 30's. I assume you're a little older? But who knows, she might be into older dudes, keep your hopes upNieghorn wrote: ... all's fair in love and war and all that.
Are you as far removed as me age-wise? I'm easily 5-10 years too old.
Burned two people with the in-out stutter! Wonderful stuff!eldanielfire wrote:I also look forward to Emma Urn stepping up from U20's to England. Since her injured she has been spectacular on the wing for Sarries. This try yesterday:
https://twitter.com/rugbydad678/status/ ... 7456436229