The Women's Six Nations: Coaches special
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The 2025 Women's Six Nations is about to start with a Rugby World Cup also just around corner meaning the stakes are higher than ever.
All the home nations are in action and Rugby Union Weekly catches up with all the head coaches: England's John Mitchell, Ireland's Scott Bemand, Scotland's Bryon Easson and Wales new coach Sean Lynn ahead of his first tournament fresh from leading Gloucester-Hartpury to their third PWR title.
With England's Red Roses going for a seventh Championship title in a row, Sara Orchard and 2014 RWC winner Kat Merchant are at the tournament launch to discuss their chances along with France and Italy.
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| 0:35.2 | Welcome to Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:42.3 | Yes, one, Six Nations is over, but then another one begins straight away. The Women's Six Nations gets underway. |
| 0:44.3 | This weekend, I'm Sarah Orchid, and I'm delighted to say, with all the gossip for all the build-up, |
| 0:49.3 | I am joined here today by 2014 World Cup winner Cat Merchant. |
| 0:53.3 | Thank you for being here alongside. |
| 0:55.3 | No, very happy. I'm happy to be gossiping. |
| 0:57.6 | Well, exactly. But before we go to the serious stuff, what have you made of today? |
| 1:01.2 | Because I don't think you've been to one of these launches for a while. What have you made of it? |
| 1:04.0 | I thought it was awesome because, you know, to showcase how far the sport has come and how far women's rugby has come. We used to win |
| 1:11.8 | grand slams for fun and we would be lucky if we got one line in a paper. Now there's music going, |
| 1:18.5 | there's clips playing, each captain's being applauded out with their coach and there's lots of media |
| 1:23.0 | attention and it just feels like it's important and And that's exactly the credit it deserves. |
| 1:27.8 | So, yeah, I love it. |
| 1:29.3 | Well, today we're going to focus on the coaches. |
| 1:31.5 | So basically a day like this, they all get rotated around. |
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