📽 Highlights | Record breaking Red Roses | England 73-7 Wales

Highlights from Ashton Gate in Bristol as the Red Roses win a record 25th Test in a row by beating Wales in their final watch before heading to New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup.
#WearTheRose

[@D1DRL]

Entertaining to watch as always from England. Come the world cup I reckon an England v France final if all goes well. Helena Rowland just firmly nailed her place today.

[@robw7676]

Helena Rowland is class - great hands, great feet, good kicker and pace to burn.

[@Jaxck77]

25 in a row! Literally the best rugby team on the international stage ever compared to their competition.

[@farqusada6939]

Literally shcool boys will thrash them

[@Antechynus]

Unless they had to play against 15yr old boys.... they'd be utterly flogged.

[@linalmeemow]

There's some serious pace in the England backs!

[@GrandadsWorkshop5252]

What a sweet scoreline that is 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@simonfawcett6359]

Fabulous ladies well done 👏🏻

[@pljms]

Helena Rowland is equally convincing at 12 as she is at 10 & 15. She's going to be one of England's key players at the World Cup.

[@jasonsen3367]

She'd probably do a great job on the wing too.

[@stevemathews9535]

She is lovely to watch.

[@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart]

It’s like England are playing on a CPU game and their the team on legendary difficulty

[@jakeianwilliamson5155]

Superb achievement 👍👍 world record and well deserved

[@waverunner3911]

It's allways nice to beat Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@phrankster909]

Great result and great performance by Rowland. I'm gutted that Wales didn't put up much of a fight. They have some good players but not many honestly. Sorry Wales but please try being better.

[@timwannell6477]

GOAT team of rugby 🌹

[@petermilner3937]

It's an interesting debate. I suspect there'll be a few Black Fern teams who give this current England team a run. After all, they have won 5 world championships and a winning record over England, who are without doubt the team to beat right now.

[@Antechynus]

GOAT team of rugby?... Unless they play the local boys under 16s, then they'd be flogged.

[@lost_boy]

@@Antechynus what an absurd thing to say. the Red Roses are clearly the finest rugby team the world has ever seen. 25 on the bounce now, and set to become world champs. Even the 2015 all blacks didn't have the level of dominance the Red Roses have.

[@Antechynus]

@@lost_boy not any where near as absurd as saying a women's team is the GOAT of rugby, you cannot be the GOAT if U15 local boys team can beat them.

[@lost_boy]

@@Antechynus why would a women's team be playing boys, or indeed men? Men have a clear physical advantage of about 20% in most areas thanks to high levels of testosterone.

[@tommyscamps]

holy shit!!! this is the best rugby I have ever seen. MUCH better than any mens game. Definitely going to start supporting women's rugby more from now on. What a game!!

[@grahamjordan1040]

Shut up

[@Antechynus]

Cucked much?

[@RO8s]

It's less interesting live. I saw them at Twickenham the other year, after the French game. I stopped watching at halftime and went to meet my friends in the pub. At the time, I was coaching the under 16s in a provincial town in southwest France. They were better than my Cadets, but almost exactly the same standard as the Juniors - under 17s in a small town in France. it looks more interesting on television.

[@Kevin-it8hb]

Fair play to the English ladies, hell of a beating, credit where credits due. Clearly the superior team. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@alanrowland6773]

Cracking game, Helena Rowland was Just brilliant, Alan Rowland Sadly No relation

[@philadams1495]

Wow good luck in the world cup

[@lonestar6709]

Damn, our English girls are cleaning up, lately! Come on boys! The lasses are leaving you for dead.

[@mafoomatty7494]

In football and rugby

[@sebby5700]

Amazing from England! Pretty embarrassing for Wales as they have a fully professional side and get hammered by even more points 😂 still want use the ‘they’re all professional’ excuse? 😂

[@michaelbaker7499]

How long have they all been professional? How long has this red roses squad been playing and competing as a dedicated professional unit? 3 years? Wales? I don’t even think they’re all actually professional yet.

[@sebby5700]

@@michaelbaker7499 they said in a report that it’s the first time they’re fully professional. Please don’t say your trying to use the length of time of how professional they are as an excuse

[@michaelbaker7499]

@@sebby5700 so you think when a team becomes professional their standards magically increase? Resulting in there being no discernible difference between a team that's been professional for, say, 9 months and a team that's been professional for the entirety of the carriers of its constitute players? Give over. Of course it'll make a difference.

[@davejones1372]

Typical english .when they lose to the men have to send their women out 🤣🤣

[@clemobenoit5813]

@@michaelbaker7499 Excuses from losers...

[@happynogod1646]

Well Done England was a bit one sided and would have prefered if you were challenged a bit. But Very well done

[@michaelbaker7499]

I’m still slightly confused how that penalty try didn’t come with a yellow card.

[@thomaswormald3503]

The yellow card is only for when a single player can be found to be at fault. As the entire scrum was going backwards it's a bit difficult to attribute blame.

[@michaelbaker7499]

@@thomaswormald3503 still seems wrong to me. Someone collapsed the scrum, wheeled it or something illegal that prevented the try. If you can't identify who, isn't there a pack leader? Wouldn't they be responsible for the actions of the forwards?

[@clemobenoit5813]

@@michaelbaker7499 Send them all off then you reckon ?

[@robw7676]

@@michaelbaker7499 If a Welsh player collapsed a maul for a penalty try or prevented a probable try scoring pass for a penalty try (tackle off the ball, deliberate knock on etc...) then that player gets yellow. The only time a yellow card would be dished out in that scenario with no clear offender is if Wales were already on a team or scrum yellow card warning for repeated infringement, in that case whichever front row player stood up or went down first would probably go.

[@michaelbaker7499]

@@robw7676 so if a Welsh player collapses the scrum to prevent a try, how's that different to collapsing a maul to prevent a try?

[@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp]

This is so uncompetitive as to be risible.

[@holitipu]

Suggestion..don t put result in title

[@michaelmacriocaird3068]

Not much point in a six nations the gap between England and rest is huge , then again the England side are a professional outfit not so much the other sides, either side doesn’t learn much by these ridiculous score lines .

[@chriswood8398]

Think the Welsh needs to work on their fitness and turn some of that fat to muscle

[@krazypizza1163]

😃

[@AH-cl1gt]

It’s England women

[@Poweroftouch]

Ain't you clever lol

[@mindspace3863]

Because women's rugby is fairly new at this level, it will take 5-10 for these teams to even out in performance, hence why you typically have these screwed results where one team does very well and the other team doesn't. Of course this happens in men's rugby but not as often between popular rugby supporting nations such as Wales. Now I don't know if women's rugby has a 6 nations but heck the women's England team will have it easy because at least the women's Welsh team are so bad. Dome tuning and further support needs to take place and that may be another decade away yet.

[@bennierheeder7015]

So, basically, you know nothing about woman’s rugby. Yes, they have a six nations.

[@MartinJG100]

Too many leaks, Wales.

[@brangkamunan8485]

Pointless

[@spinynormanbest6410]

There was 80pts😚😚

[@sockington1]

how many times - IT WASN'T A HAT-TRICK

[@jasonsen3367]

Why wasn't it?

[@harbster2]

What a waste of time

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

Harrison was just awful for the first 20 minutes. Why is she first choice?

[@SandSMat]

True, she had a poor start but so did Helena Rowland in the last match and Zoe is a good player. She may not be my first choice at 10 but Simon Middleton has invested a lot in her and I believe that at this late stage it would be foolish to drop her.

[@jasonsen3367]

She's had some great games for the Red Roses, she just had an off day. Harrison and Rowland play well together as well.

[@johnx9774]

Yeah she wasn't great but it doesn't help when a prop decides to stand directly in front of you when you are attempting to kick the ball out, particularly gormless. Maybe it knocked her confidence because she was fabulous against the NZ last year.

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

@@johnx9774 The forward was blocking the opposition runners as is normal. Harrison as usual kick low and slow. Why try to defend her poor kicking abilities. There are far better kickers in the squad. In the World Cup the clever teams are going to target her slack slow play.

[@paulm2467]

England lost the last World Cup because their back up players weren’t integrated into the first choice fifteen and they couldn’t replace key players. They are clearly using as many options as possible and playing players in their second or even third choice position, we’ve seen most of the wingers, Rowland and Harrison play full back, interchangeable fly halves and centres, scrum halves on the wing, back rows in the second row etc. This is probably part of the same policy of covering all the options.

[@lordlucan3706]

Well done to the England lesbian rugby team.

[@kennywasgod]

It kinda dilutes it when you realise of those 25 games well over half were against amateur sides whose players have jobs and train barely twice a week.

[@neill392]

Back in the eighties and nineties, Wigan won the rugby league challenge cup 8 years on the trot. You can see their name in the record books, there's no asterisk next to their name and no footnote telling you that for most of that period they were the only full time professional team in the league. Other teams were all paid, but virtually all the players were part time, with other jobs. They trained 2 nights a week whilst Wigan trained 5 days a week. No one complained at the time, never heard anyone mention it since. By the end of that run, all the teams had gone full time. Someone has to go 1st, someone has to lead. Wales, Scotland, Italy, France, Ireland and New Zealand now all have their teams on central contracts. Others will follow.

[@jonchess8844]

@@neill392 Well put mate 👍👍

[@bondvillansarebest]

Do you also think that the All Blacks 'record' 18 match winning streak in 2015/16 was diluted because it includes wins over amateur sides Namibia, Tonga and Georgia?

[@kennywasgod]

@@bondvillansarebest ok. If you want to compare the AB’s and the England ladies records then you go right ahead.

[@joefair1137]

@@kennywasgod it’s a good point though, and a lot of the Welsh, Scottish and Irish squad are in full time contracts in the English league. France has their own fully professional league, USA and Canada have some in professional contracts as well. So it’s actually more similar than you’d expect.

[@tarquin4592]

Almost as unedifying as women boxing.

[@timothywilliams4089]

No wonder Wales lost, they're playing against men..............joke...