HSBC SVNS 2025 kicks off with thrilling day of world class rugby at the Sevens Stadium in Dubai SVNS Champions Australia and Olympic gold medallists New Zealand dominate women’s pools with perfect win records to reach quarter-finals SVNS league winners Argentina and previous double Olympic champions Fiji were the only unbeaten men’s teams on a
Ilona Maher (USA) has received official PWR backing from Genevieve Shore, the chair, for a visa application that would allow her to join one of its clubs. The two thought likeliest are Gloucester-Hartpury and Bristol Bears, who sit third and fourth in the league table at present. Of course it’s perfectly possible that other clubs
Harlequins Head Coach Ross Chisholm has named his side to face Trailfinders Women at The Stoop on Saturday, making three changes to the side who toppled Saracens last Sunday. The side is bolstered by the return of newly crowned World Player of the Year, Ellie Kildunne. The front-row remains unchanged, with Silvia Turani at tighthead
Megan Davey will become only the second player in Loughborough Lightning history to reach 100 appearances when she runs out against Saracens this weekend. The 24-year-old has been selected at scrum-half in an unchanged Lightning starting line-up as Premiership Women’s Rugby’s fifth and sixth placed teams meet in a Round 8 encounter at The StoneX
1 English rugby has reacted badly to the news that the RFU’s Chief Executive, Bill Sweeney, received a bonus of £358,000 to add to his salary of £742,000. His starting salary had been £430,000. The committee that decides these sums gave him a score of 0% in two categories, Rugby Inclusivity and Participation in Community
A new leader in charge The names Giselle Mather has listed for the opening tournament in Dubai this weekend are familiar. But her completely new immersion in the game makes their playing strategies quite unpredictable. She had a positive baptism with the visit to the Elche Sevens in Spain, though the opposition there was not
Olympic stars and international debutants ready for action as HSBC SVNS 2025 kicks off on 30 November – 1 December at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai France men arrive as Olympic and SVNS Champions, while New Zealand and Australia will once again battle for women’s supremacy along with Olympic medallists Canada and USA South Africa
This should really be a question, not a command from Dick Turpin. But the latest statement to emerge from PWR announces a link with a leading provider of statistics, Oval Insights. That will be a great help to clubs, coaches and players. Fans too may find pleasing indications of how their club is progressing. Were
News dribbles slowly out of GB’s HQ. At least we know the squad: Emma Uren (captain), Isla Norman-Bell (vice captain), Ellie Boatman, Reneeqa Bonner, Abbie Brown, Shona Campbell, Heather Cowell, Grace Crompton, Meg Davies, Eloise Hayward, Vicky Laflin, Georgie Lingham, Alicia Maude, Chantelle Miell, Emma Mundy, Catherine Richards, Jade Shekells, Katie Shillaker, Lauren Torley, Charlie
Exeter Chiefs centre Alex Tessier has today welcomed a new partnership between Premiership Women’s Rugby and rugby’s leading data and analytics provider, Oval Insights Tessier who was named on World Rugby’s shortlist for World Player of the Year, was the leading points-scorer at WXV, and in the PWR, she has helped take Exeter Chiefs eight
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