Can't wait to see them in New Zealand.

Michaela Blyde just Glydes, crikeys doesn't she show a clean pair of heals when breaks that gap.

Love black Ferns, good to see them just having a chat. Nice upload 👌

Thank you, ma'am!

Hey miss dadds

Hi miss dadds! 🥰✌️

That was my maths classroom gotta love Trudy hahaha

Fab chat Beautiful Savvy family 💙

Sarah Bern? Ellie Kildunne? Sadia Kabeya? Leanne Infante?

So looking forward to being at Queensholm this weekend. Plenty of pickle juice will be needed

this is one awesome player her level of play never waived strong and sure keep her in the team and nurture more players kike her

This is really interesting. It's from a time before Lindsay Peat and Claire Molloy retired from international rugby. I'd replace Claire with Maeve Og O'Leary. I would have Natasha Hunt in as a 9.

Nice to see the girls in good spirits. But next time - PLEASE eliminate all that background noise!

Get the mike closer to the ladies, but really good to hear opinions and makes me excited for the match

Radio interviewers need to be able to speak clearly

Excellent interviews 👍👍👍👏👏😎

Shame about the lawnmower . . . But great to hear from the team about their experiences and approach to the game. Can't wait for the France game and know that the Roses will give of their best. Good luck!

Everyone'swell spoken and then Marlie's west country twang comes on with a look of mischeif in her eye.

Lovely, sensible young woman 😊great skills. I am sure she will be one of the greats very soon!

Good match. Who’s in the final?

Wearing a Leeds top on camea shouldn't be allowed.

Love love 👏🏽👏🏽

👏👏👏 Loooove it!!!!

Well done, interesting video. Thank you all your work during 2021. My choice for moment of the year would be watching international women's rugby on BBC 2 TV a massive step forward. Whilst one cannot take away the terrific season (in fact several seasons) Zoe Aldcroft has had, Zoe Harrison has, at long last, reproduced her Sarries' form with the Red Roses and has been outstanding. She would be my player of the season.

Excellent interview. More please 🙏

It's only 3 months later and this list is quite out of date, with quite a few of these now playing for the roses or been in the Ba Ba's

Wonderful and inspiring rugby today. Very well done Ba Ba’s

Thanks for a great podcast. So good to have this out there for those of us interested and who appreciate the time and effort you all put in to supporting rugby..

Nope, doesn’t work for me. Watching other sporting podcasts might help but this one just seems so “ Amateur “ . I feel women’s rugby deserves better

Absolutely brilliant! Well done Hollie, you smashed it! Loved listening to you! 😃🏉😃😃🏉😃🏉😃🏉😃🏉😃🏉

When you're at the game you should take a tripod for the camera. It'll stop the picture rocking, and help people focus even more on your punditry.

Sorry Sam - I don't do lip reading.

Great win but I do struggle with this podcast, doesn’t quite work for me.

This is a sort of England A team. High time it’s reintroduced. So many worthwhile possible opponents around. We’ll see how many get to play in the autumn tests.

I thought that Mo Hunt had a great game and she is playing as well as ever.

British & Irish Lionesses, surely?

Three more that are really on form - Emily Robinson, Emma Sing and Phoebe Murray. The latter with Amber Reed are a great centre partnership.

Oh no and on the post match interview with my girl 😩😩😩

Soundtrack disappears when discussing the wasps line up on the intro 😔

What a choice Simon Middleton has for Number 10 - Meg Jones, Helena Rowland and Emily Scott. All three are such terrific players. I think that we shall see Beth Blacklock blossom into a top class centre.

Lovely to hear from all these players (esp Jess Dadd😊). All the changes make for an exciting season ahead!

She is so beautiful I love her I would marry her on my god I'm a fan

Whilst not relevant here, what happened to Charlotte Pearce, as I thought she was so exciting. She did publically reveal that she had had some personal issues?

Great selection. I would have considered Ellie Underwood - wing. Ella Wyrwas - scrum half and perhaps Heather Cowell - wing.

Top Episode Sam! Amazing to hear the insight of Michaela. She was brilliant in Tokyo! 🙌🏉

The big problem, for me, is that we have 3 teams of professionals: England, France & NZ playing against teams of amateurs. And when conditioned professional athletes play against people playing for a hobby, then the mismatch is more than just the score. The physical mismatch is how players get hurt seriously. The rest of the tier 1 nations need to go pro.

Thanks for that Sam, it's always good to put ideas out there for discussion. It looks like you're thinking of a 6 week tour with club games, along the lines of the men's Lions. Is this practical? It might be tough for amateur players and it's a little difficult to see the club games generating enough money to justify themselves. An alternative would be Test matches only, but starting with one or two against European opposition before the main tour. If touring NZ it would be a shame not to get in a match vs Australia too, or an Oceanic Barbarians. (As an aside, do Glendale still have an elite women's team? I thought I saw something about them being axed.)

If they were to copy the Men's format, France would have to be a destination with Italy/Spain getting games. From the outside, it seems like the Ire/Wal/Scot unions don't even properly fund their female pathway/squads so don't see why they should benefit financially from such a tour. Especially when Italy and potentially Spain (if they weren't thrown out of the 6n) would be just as deserving. Why cant the women's game create their own unique tour/series? SH vs NH, Rest of the world vs the world cup winners . England or France vs Rest of Europe.

Although I would like to see a women's Lions team, it would be more pointless than beneficial in my opinion. If there was to be a women's Lions team, then by logic you would call them the Lionesses just for starters. While development of opposition would benefit, the purpose of the Lions is to tour and beat the very best. As England are the very best at the moment, winning tests on tour won't be too difficult compared to their male counterparts. If they go to the US and Canada, it would do well in promoting the women's game in the Americas, but I would expect the Lionesses to win every game without issue. Their only potential to lose a game would come from New Zealand; however as England would likely beat New Zealand on their own right now, this Lionesses team would more likely prevail, therefore they would win the series pretty much every time. Now as the home nations are often even in the men's game, the Lions would also be even amongst the nations. However, as England are way ahead of the others in the women's game, 12 or 13 out of the 15 test starters would be English. Another positive I believe that could come out is the attention of the Lionesses team giving the home union more attention, improving them to a standard more challenging to England, so the team can be more even as time goes by. Anyway if there was to be a Lionesses team right now, being most harsh on England as possible I think it should line-up like this: 15. Rollie 14. Joyce 13. Scarratt 12. Nelson 11. Breach 10. Snowsill 9. Riley 8. Hunter 7. Packer 6. Griffin 5. Aldcroft 4. Ward 3. Bern 2. Moloney 1. Cornborough 16. Cokayne 17. Botterman 18. Djougang 19. Wassell 20. Malcolm 21. Hunt 22. Rowland 23. Parsons

Just to let you know that the sound cuts out in the last part