Under the Posts – Jun 22-28

The Rugby Journal

Under the Posts – June 22-28 includes articles from Maggie Alphonsi, Charity Williams, the Farah Palmer Cup, Glendale touts their partnership (backroom deal) with USA Rugby and we’ve got plenty of media for you this week! Featured News This week we’re looking at two articles featuring England’s Maggie Alphonsi and Canada’s Charity Williams. Alphonis is … Read more

Under the Posts – May 25-Jun 14

XV Foundation

Usually we start our women’s rugby digest with a featured video of the week. But the world as we know it changed (again) on May 25, 2020 with the brutal murder of George Floyd. Floyd isn’t the only victim of police brutality but his death reignited the BLM movement. After reflection and consultation with a … Read more

Under the Posts – Mar 30-Apr 5

Simi Hannah

Under the Posts – Mar 30-Apr 5 brings back our weekly women’s rugby video and we feature two rugby unions who are making tough choices… In XVs news, Tyrrells Premier has declared the season null and void…which is lame, while Super W declared the Waratah the overall winners, their third Championship.  7s news covers four … Read more

Under the Posts – Oct 28 – Nov 3

2019 European Trophy Women's Rugby - Sweden

The big women’s rugby stories this week include the upcoming South America Rugby (SAR7s), Sweden over Finland in the European Trophy, Spain defeated Wales and England took the first Rugby X tournament. We also cover the French Elite League, Glendale takes the 2019 WPL Championships, and we highlight the NIRA semi-finals as well as the … Read more

Under the Posts – Oct 20-27

Canterbury claims third Farah Palmer Cup title

We realized last week that our ‘Under the Posts’ entries were spanning Sunday to Saturday and often splitting a weekend of rugby. So this week we’ll be transitioning to a Monday through Sunday week and that should give us better coverage! This week’s big stories include the busiest year of women’s test rugby ever, the … Read more

Under the Posts – Oct 13-19

Harvard women's rugby dominates over Notre Dame

Another big week in women’s rugby with the release of  the Dubai 7s pools and fixtures, Newcastle is launching a women’s side, a draw in the first match of the Rugby Europe Women’s Trophy and lots of #rugbyjobs postings. We also catch up with results from Tyrrells Premier, Farah Palmer Cup and the Women’s Premier … Read more

Under the Posts – Sep 29-Oct 5

Triple double completed for Japan in Colombo

This week we’re covering top women’s rugby news including the first stop of the 2019-2020 HSBC Sevens, Scrum Queens names 7s and 15s Teams of the Decade, Japan swept the Asian Sevens Championship and England has named their 28 player contracts. But wait, there is always more! Squads are being named ahead of Autumn Internationals … Read more

Under the Posts – Sep 22-28

This week we continue our new format with commentary inline with the twitter cards below. Big stories include Leinster winning Ireland’s Interpro Championships for the second year, Australia and New Zealand announce their Glendale 7s squads and the 2020 Six Nations fixtures are released. As always, those are just the highlights so keep reading! Can’t … Read more