Women’s Six Nations: The weekend review
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Red Roses won again, Scotland and Wales produced another thriller and Ireland pushed France all the way in Belfast. Sara rounds up the opening weekend of the Women’s Six Nations and we start in York. World Cup winners Kat Merchant and Katy Daley-McLean look back at England’s 30th successive Six Nations win. But why did their performance drop off so dramatically in the second half? And did the Helena Rowland experiment at fly-half work? Commentator Claire Thomas joins us as we look back at Scotland’s narrow win over Wales on Saturday. Scotland’s Helen Nelsen caught the eye and Sara explains why her performance reminded her of Katy in her prime. We talk Ireland too as head coach Scott Bemand says it's time to ditch the tag of 'plucky losers' after their defeat to France.
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| 0:32.0 | Well, welcome to another episode of Rugby Union Weekly, where it is all over in York. It's another win for England. |
| 0:39.1 | We're going to work through the Women's Six Nations weekend. We can just see a few red roses. |
| 0:44.0 | The last one standing I think is actually Abby Ward, who is still out doing the selfies at the moment, |
| 0:48.8 | and she's going to make her way down the tunnel now. I'm delighted to say that I'm joined by |
| 0:53.2 | former England Fly Half World Cup |
| 0:55.1 | winner Katie Daly McLean and also wing former World Cup winner cat merch and I mean I always feel |
| 1:01.0 | very like my CV is not good enough when I've got you two around me. How was it for you to? Do you enjoy that? |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah, it was fantastic I thought like good day. I'm a little cold now, but other than that, good. |
| 1:12.1 | You do look chilly, Kat. |
| 1:13.1 | She's gone blue. It doesn't look chilly. |
| 1:15.3 | She's got like a grey, grey shade going. |
| 1:18.5 | Well, we are going to keep going, so Kat might get bluer as it gets on, hopefully not the content. |
| 1:24.5 | Just howies. |
| 1:25.2 | Who knows, who knows? |
| 1:29.8 | Right, then, they are starting to filter out now i can't even see any cowboy hats left that's been a bit of a theme there was nearly a whole |
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