In the opening minutes of the game Scotland asserted their dominant defence on their visitors which continued for the full 80-minutes. Scoring opened on the tenth minute of the game when Ireland turned over the ball at the breakdown, scrum-half Molly Scuffil-McCabe made the break up-field and found Vicky Elmes Kinlan on the wing who […]
Lindsey Smith said: “The result against Italy was disappointing given how well we played on match day two. I felt we fronted up well at scrum time against a big Italian pack, that was really pleasing and a definite improvement on the previous two days. People like Imogen Spence really stood out, she was a […]
What they said Head Coach Bryan Easson said: “We were really disappointed with our performance against Italy, so this week is a good opportunity to put that one to bed and show the progress that this group have made over the years. It’s a huge task, but it’s a task that we are certainly up […]
Lindsey Smith “I thought it was a good first day for us. Against Wales we competed a great deal better than we did in our hit-out against them a couple of weeks ago. I think our line-out was a big strength of ours both in attack and defence, we were able to apply quite a […]
What they said Scotland Head Coach Bryan Easson said: “Everybody has come in fresh from fallow week and we’ve had good intensity at training. We’re really looking forward to this game. We’re going to be looking for consistency in our performance, we’ve been working hard on two or three little areas we needed to tighten […]
For Evie Wills, whose last Scotland cap (prior to the 2025 Guinness Women’s Six Nations) came three years ago, her recovery from an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury was an opportunity to showcase the positivity that exudes as soon as you meet her. Having helped Scotland qualify for the 2021 Rugby World Cup, scoring her […]
Hollie Cunningham, who impressed on debut last week, was crocked in one of the early rucks and the second row forward could play no further part, applauded off by the 15,000 crowd at La Rochelle’s Stade Marcel Deflandre to be replaced after merely a minute by Adelle Ferrie, herself a new cap in the win […]
What they said Head Coach Bryan Easson said: “France are a good side, but I thought our performance against France last year was excellent. We’ve got to take confidence in that. “We’ve got to take confidence from how tight the game was up until the last minute. We’ve got to take confidence from our performance […]