www.theroar.com.au/2025/10/07/e... Australia is cutting women’s rugby budget 25% cause who needs to make sure the women can do well before the next World Cup which just happens to be in AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 !

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ArnoldClarkRugby Round 6 Biggar comes out victorious of the fight between the 2 last placed. The Cougars jump 2 positions. And not such a one sided result as other rounds, but Stirling continues collecting bonus wins. Cartha Queens vs Watsonian postponed 2 weeks due to a waterlogged pitch.

🇪🇸 #IberdrolaRugby Round 2 Majadahonda uses Getxo 2 cards to score and save the win. The Crocodiles nil Pozuelo. CRAT always in front takes the 4 table points. And really good game by Cisneros keeping the champion close for most of the match, with El Salvador only getting away when the bench came in.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #PWR Cup Semi-Finals Saracens have no trouble to deal with the Chiefs after scoring 7 tries. Meanwhile at the Stoop looks there was some spice. A red card at 66' for Heidi Pashaei-Tarighoun left Bristol with 14. At that moment they where winning 27–36 😱 Real shame there was no stream.

🍀 #EnergiaAIL Round 2 A thought start for last season runner-up Railway with their 2nd defeat on a row. Newcomers Ennis get their 2nd W and Ballincollig save a losing bonus. Comfortable wins for Cooke and Galwegians. And Blackrock gets the only away win of the round.

🇳🇿 #FarahPalmerCup Premiership Final Waikato goes back-to-back and wins their 3rd title. A nail biter from minute one, with both teams taking the lead multiple times, a (lawfuly) disallowed try that could have changed the result and Canterbury applying pressure literally till the last second

Since I have a lot more followers recently a reminder that although I know you're saving up for your Miami - Dubai R360 tickets go behind the couch and pull out some change for Revolution Rugby girls. Multiethnic, women & girls rugby in Kosovo. We've got our big, nationwide camp coming up!

The 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup is over. We review the tournament, its legacy, its highlights, and what comes next... youtu.be/KPOAw6JHH2M

The 🇳🇿 #FarahPalmerCup Premiership ends tomorrow. Waikato vs Canterbury, a repeat of last year final. This season on Round 4 Waikato won 28–17. At 13:15 NZDT (1am London, 2am Paris, Friday 20pm New York) live on Sky Sport NZ

The 🇸🇪🇩🇪🇫🇮 #RugbyEurope Trophy will kick-off in less than a month with Finland hosting Sweden. The other 2 matches, involving Germany, will be played next year. Although last season there was no relegation from the Championship, Sweden asked to return to the Trophy due to internal problems.

🍀 #EnergiaAIL Round 1 Wicklow are the first leaders after the only one-sided match of the round. The reigning champions win without bonus against Blackrock. Recently promoted Ennis start their 1st ever AIL season with a win thanks to Emma Keane boot. And Tullow salvages 2 bonus.

🇪🇸 #IberdrolaRugby Round 1 3 bonus wins, one them pretty one sided. Pozuelo back on the top flight after a year on the 2nd division, but starting with a defeat. A comfortable win for Getxo. And El Salvador with some of their Leonas on the bench and still showing last year title was not not a one-off

🇳🇿 #FarahPalmerCup Premiership Semi-finals Good start for Canterbury scoring 3. The Cyclones manage to tie it at HT before running out of gas on the last 20. Great comeback just a bit short, with Auckland coming from 20 points behind. If not for a really dumb yellow card maybe they would have done it

Looking forward to watching the tv coverage of both matches. England are just an anaconda of a team. They exert constant pressure and just squeeze the life out of their opponent. England’s defence - apart from the policy of leaving Asia Hogan-Rochester unmarked - was just immense.

Now 🇨🇦 Sophie de Goede is officially Sophie de Bestie. Also breakthrough for 🇳🇿 Braxton Sorensen-McGee.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦🇳🇿🇫🇷 #2025RWC A deserved win, the Red Roses get their 3rd title and everyone that's not English (me included) is crying now. Canada barely able to advance and link passes, wasting their few chances. The English defence stood strong and dominated the set pieces, specially the scrum

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦🇳🇿🇫🇷 #2025RWC New Zealand saves face as they win their 2nd bronze in history. France opened with one of the best tries of the tournament before the Ferns let lose and began to rack tries up. When the French finally decided to react, it was already too late.

Tonight is the night (well, afternoon)

Final weekend of the #2025RWC England need the title to show their investment was worth it, while Canada promised they would win if they fulfilled their 1 million crowdfunding. And on the bronze final, a win for France would be an 8th bronze while a loss for New Zealand could be catastrophic.

Check out the latest episode now! Why Canada are so effective, why France beat themselves, and hear our thoughts on World Player of the Year. youtu.be/hA3L3T3nWMc?...

This week is a rehash of the same column I have written for the last four years… which is the duration of time I have spent writing columns. alicesoapbox.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

The RWC2025 may *almost* be over, but that doesn't mean that the history making has stopped! 🧵 A Thread

Results round-up from Sunday's NC 1 East fixtures. Bonus point wins for Bedford, Colchester, Hitchin & Stamford. Wymondham pick up losing and try scoring bonus points.

🚨NEW POD ALERT! 🚨 With the final on the horizon, we chat Sophie de GOATe, the upcoming final and Sophie de GOATe! YouTube: youtu.be/4lr1I7CVNLA?... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6WWr...

This one flew under my radar. Latvia hosted Denmark last Saturday. They drew 15–15. The Danish hadn't played a Test since May 2004. Rugby Europe hasn't yet announced this season schedule, so we can't know yet if we'll see both teams on the conference or the trophy. #TestRugby

🇪🇸 #IberdrolaRugby Supercup The Spanish reigning champions start their season with a title after a 10 try onslaught. Overwhelming and unstoppable, they've shown they pretend to keep rising the standards and are ready to win it all this year.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ArnoldClarkRugby Round 5 On the match between 2nd and 3rd, Watsonian takes the win an jumps 1 position. Meanwhile Corstorphine & Heriot get big scores. And finally, Stirling. That's the 3rd time they defeat Clock RFC this season. They've scored 393 points in 5 matches! Madness.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #PWR Cup Round 5 On Pool A Exeter takes the win at home and Harlequins shows their dominance against GH. On Pool B, Sale got all their points in 10 minutes, but Bristol came back on the 2nd half, while Saracens goes 4/4 downing Leicester. Semi-finals in 2 weeks: Quins vs Bears & Sarries vs Chiefs

World Rugby reveals Women’s 15s Player and Breakthrough Player of the Year award nominees for 2025 www.world.rugby/news/1016528...

🇳🇿 #FarahPalmerCup Championship Final Otago ends a perfect 7/7 season winning the title and will return to the Premiership after 5 years. At least 3 times was Northland about to score just before being held up or losing the ball while the Spirit kept going again and again until they broke them.

🇳🇿 #FarahPalmerCup Premiership Round 7 Auckland wins a place on playoffs after scoring 7 tries on the 2nd half. Canterbury gets a home semi-final by smashing Bay of Plenty. And Waikato secures top of the table as they trample relegated Hawke's Bay, that says goodbye to the prem with 0 points

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦🇳🇿🇫🇷 #2025RWC And that's 17 times in a row England defeats France. A game mostly played on the English half, with France advancing painfully slow just to lose the ball at the last moment and being sent back 40m to restart. Meanwhile, the Roses ruthless every time they stepped on the French 22.

A small thread about the new WXV that everyone from the English speaking countries should read

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦🇳🇿🇫🇷 #2025RWC What a match. I don't know what to say. They've done it. Canada are on a RWC final after 11 years. Of course the Ferns where dangerous & gave the fight when they had the ball, but Canada where amazing, spectacular, astounding, stunning, scrumptious, I need to buy an English dictionary

#2025RWC semi-finals start this evening! NZ better every week but missing players. Canada to prove again their top2 ranking is well deserved And the nth Le Crunch, with no bites expected ^^ Local times and broadcasters: www.rugbyworldcup.com/2025/en/matc... and www.rugbyworldcup.com/2025/en/wher...

WR has finally confirmed what the rumours where saying, #WXV is dead, long live WXV. A new 2 tier competition where the pure blooded T1s will no longer have to debase themselves to play with dirty upstarts. The top 12 will play amongst themselves, and the next 6 will have another tournament.

#TestRugby Hong Kong China will visit Europe in 2 months time to participate on a tournament that will also include Germany and Belgium

Huge news for women’s rugby in France as Elite 1 signs partnership with AXA bank 💰 "Today, the budgets of Elite 1 clubs range between €400k and €800k…. with this partnership, we would like to increase them to €1.8 - €2 million" states Florian Grill, president of the FFR 🇫🇷

Big news coming from France. The 🇫🇷 #Elite1Rugby changes it's name after signing a new agreement with insurance company AXA.

Playoff Drama, RWC Records, and a New Era for Rugby | WRR 215 Open for the week's 🧵. scrumhalfconnection.com/2025/09/15/c...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ArnoldClarkRugby Round 4 No, that's not a typo. Stirling defeats Heriot by 101 points. In 4 rounds they have already scored 309 and only received 17, talk about dominance. Hillhead, Watsonian, and Corstorphine also get a bonus win, with the latter jumping 3 positions in the table.

🇳🇿 #FarahPalmerCup Championship Semi-finals Northland defeats Wellington again. The Pride takes advantage of a yellow card to get ahead, but the hosts turn it around on the last quarter. Otago manages to only receive 1 try while being 2 players down and immediately scores 3 to secure the win.

🇳🇿 #FarahPalmerCup Premiership Round 6 Bay of Plenty saves their season with a resounding 10 try victory against the Tui. Under poor weather conditions Waikato secures the win on the last play of the match. Auckland getting a 12 point lead in the 1st quarter, but unable to keep it up.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #PWR Cup Round 4 Saracens gets a bonus win to top Pool B. They finish against Leicester, so probably will have a home semi-final. Loughborough gets 2 bonus but it's not enough and are out of the run. Sale and Bristol, with just 1 table point of difference will fight for the last spot.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦🇳🇿🇫🇷🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🇿🇦 #2025RWC Scotland opening the score, and that's almost all she wrote. The Red Roses at half power more than enough to deal with their neighbours. Decent defence, but lineout not working and barely able to advance. And even so, for the Scots that's the best result against England since 2016.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦🇳🇿🇫🇷🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🇿🇦 #2025RWC The French start playing like only the French can (derogatory) Ireland with 17 (rain + wind helping them) but only getting 13 points from 40' of dominance. After HT the Irish said "you know, committing dumb errors looks like fun, let's copy them" & France manages to turn it around.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦🇳🇿🇫🇷🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🇿🇦 #2025RWC A bunch of errors from the Canadians and yet they managed to score 7 tries (+2 disallowed!) Their ruck speed is something else, has to be exhausting seeing them come at you again and again so fast. The Wallaroos attacking with all they had but the red defence so on point.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦🇳🇿🇫🇷🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺🇿🇦 #2025RWC What do you do when your oponent is better at rugby than you? Invent Rugby 2.0, obviouly. The Ferns dazed and confused, starved of ball and trying to rush it as soon as they got it. 2nd half? Don't know what you're talking about, at HT the aliens appeared & match was cancelled.

#2025RWC playoffs start this weekend The top 4 ranked teams look strong and are clear favourites, but you never know when an upset can happen Local times and broadcasters: www.rugbyworldcup.com/2025/en/matc... and www.rugbyworldcup.com/2025/en/wher...

In between busy World Cup weekends and my normal day to day bits, I've moved... Hosting sites! I shared a post a while ago with my intentions, but the site is finally ready to go. 🔗 therugbyhistoryproject.com