Leicester Tigers

England vs Ireland: Over 45000 expected at Twickenham to kick off the weekend in style. Meg Jones continues at 13, an occasion she can really thrive on, as England mostly stick with continuity. Cokayne serves a one match ban for her two yellows against Scotland. Ireland face the ultimate reality ch...

Three big scores last weekend. Two of them pretty much to script, and one very much not! England proved far to strong in the Edinburgh wind, and Scotland just couldn't deal with the conditions in the way that England could. Amy Cokayne had a rather mixed return, playing pretty excellently and scorin...

We're heading down to Ealing on Sunday (1400) for a 3rd shot at our apparent bogey team. I'd say that the two matches against them have been our worst performances of the season. In the end it was a decent effort last week against Quins, having been outplayed in the first half, but a lot of that was...

Love that

Seems like his trip down under has been very fruitful for him

He's also been down to Pennyhill to do a session with the Red Roses this week

Walk in the park for Stains

Gotta think the air-miles have really hurt LR. Stupid competition.

That's one of the best away wins in Europe ever, I think

Some result, that!

Looks like season will still go down to the last match, though.

A few names I'll be sad to see go, but removing any emotion from it, nobody that I think we can't do without. With the exception of Jasper, of course.

Fallow week out of the way, we're back in the thick of it this weekend. Scotland vs England: Five Tigers on show in Edinburgh! Leah Bartlett starts again, with Elis Martin dropping back to a bench that also has the returning Fran McGhie. Meg Jones retains the England 13 shirt, and there's a long-awa...

We're back at Welford Road for some cup action tomorrow, 1230 kick off! STARTING XV 15 Amanda Swartz [10] 14 Molly Draycott [17] 13 Sarah Nicholas [9] 12 Katie Childs [24] 11 Zoë Evans [21] 10 Natasha Jones (c) [32] 9 Amy Relf [31] 1 Jade Jones [17] 2 Alana Bainbridge [12] 3 Ofure Ugiagbe [27] 4 Cha...

I hope we take this relatively seriously. No need to risk the key players, or anyone with a high workload, but a game vs a roughly 2nd choice side would be really competitive.

Not ideal, obviously, and I go in with no expectations. Just hoping we come through unscathed.

That said, happy to see Shillcock named as a 15.

Really hard fought 2nd half, and Scotland battled for everything, but couldn't get enough territory and a late France try just kept them at arms length. 5-15

They deserved a point, but that's a 45 point swing from last year, so big progress.