Preview: Scotland Women V France Women

What they said

Scotland Women Head Coach Bryan Easson said:

“It’s always important to start any competition or any campaign with a win and a good performance. We were pleased with the victory but a little frustrated with how clinical we were but we can take that as a positive.

“I thought the crowd last week in Cardiff with the travelling support too was just exceptional. You could hear the noise of the Scotland fans so if you think about that group plus another 5,000 or so that will be coming to the Hive this weekend is really exciting.

“We love playing at the Hive because of the noise, because of the crowd. The walk between the changing room and the ground is brilliant but once we get in the ground the noise is just phenomenal. We’re really looking forward to this weekend”.

The teams

The stats

• Scotland have won each of their last three Guinness Women’s Six Nations matches, their longest winning run in the Championship since 2005 (also three).
• Scotland had the highest tackle success rate of any  side across the opening round of this year’s Guinness Women’s Six Nations (97%), missing from just five of their 169 tackle attempts against Wales– no other team missed fewer
  than 16 tackles last weekend.
• Scotland had the highest kick retention rate of any team last weekend (15%) and were the only side to success fully execute a 50/22 kick.
• Scotland’s Alex Stewart hit more attacking rucks than any other player across the opening round of this year’s Guinness Women’s Six Nations (27).