Women’s Six Nations: England win the Grand Slam
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
England held off a late France fightback to secure a fourth consecutive Grand Slam and a seventh straight title. Sara Orchard is joined by Kat Merchant, Katy Daley-McLean and Claire Thomas to dissect how England nearly let the title slip away.
The team chat England’s performance with questions around selection and how this England team would fair at the World Cup which is fast approaching. James Burridge catches up with scrum-half Natasha Hunt and how she is feeling after that narrow victory at Twickenham.
There are also questions around the other end of the Six Nations table with Wales and Italy playing Sunday for the wooden spoon.
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| 0:57.8 | The women's Six Nations is over. The cowboy hats are everywhere. And Daly McLean, 2014 rugby World Cup winner wore a cowboy hat live on the BBC. My life is complete. How are you Katie? |
| 1:04.3 | I am great. It's balanced out by my special edition Mary Earp's T-shirt. And to be honest, |
| 1:10.1 | the only reason I wore that hat is because Maggie Alfonzie got me a |
| 1:12.7 | t-shirt and she really wanted to wear a hat. |
| 1:15.0 | And anybody who knows Maggie Alfonsie will know that she's not an exhibitionist. |
| 1:19.1 | So this was a big moment. |
| 1:20.5 | Okay. |
| 1:20.9 | We are going to talk about your t-shirt in a second, but hi time I brought in the rest of |
| 1:24.2 | everyone joining us here on this special rugby union weekly here is England win the six nations a seventh title in a row a fourth grand slam another World Cup winner in cat merchant here and England left it late how are your nerves at the end yeah pretty nervous I think France if they'd have woken up five minutes earlier there, we could have been in for a different score. |
| 1:46.6 | But what a game. Incredible amount of tries. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm nervous. Probably lost my voice, but pretty happy. |
| 1:53.9 | And is that a fair assessment of Maggie or Fonzie that Katie gave us at the top there? |
| 1:56.7 | Not at all, no. I reckon Katie convinced Maggie to wear it. |
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