Rugby World Cup (Women)

Well, it’s Canada in the semi final next weekend.👍 Hopefully that challenge completed successfully it looks likely that they will meet the Black Ferns, should they get past France, in the final, if all pans out as suggested by the pundits. Must say the RRs are certainly deserving of the accolades so far!🌹🌹

With the Women’s League and Union World Cups taking place at same time, that’s going to confuse a few! However, in my opinion, and I enjoy both codes, the Red Roses are far more skilled, savvy and tactically superior that their ‘sisters’ the Lionesses . A joy to watch though, both but particularly the RRs!

To be honest, the best games of rugby this weekend gone were the two semifinals of the Women's’ World Cup. Red Roses now only the Black Ferns to beat this come weekend in order to lift the trophy! Go girls!🌹🏉👍

They're teaching the men a thing or two right now

Well it’s less than 24 hrs after which we will know if The Red Roses are World Champions. The pressure is now on in my opinion, The Black Ferns at home with a capacity crowd will present a difficult challenge. Go Girls 👍🏉🌹

Well they couldn't manage the final hurdle, not helped by being down to 14 for about 3/4 of the match. However it was some game and both teams played great rugby, it certainly highlighted just how far the women's game has come on in the last few years.

Absolutely agree, coming from my era I do find it hard to understand how an accidental head clash should change the game so much. A yellow card more appropriate in my view but despite this, wow, what a tournament! Well done all combatants involved throughout!

In this case it was a "head to head" contact and that is an automatic red card theses days, be it accidental or not. There has been too little done in the past to protect players and so we have ended up with going to the other extreme, but if it saves just one life it will have done what the rule has set out to do.  Players will just have to ensure that they avoid such instances, as the refs do have to stick rigidly to the laws, especially in competitions shown on TV, but they still can use careful judgement as shown with the N.Z. player's tackle.