3 days ago premiership-womens-rugby Three talking points from Round 8 of the 2025/26 PWR season
After this weekend Premiership Women’s Rugby will have a five week hiatus for the winter.
Loughborough Lightning face off against Gloucester-Hartpury Women RFC in PWR Round 9 on Sun 8th December 2024 at cinch Stadium at Franklin's Gardens. Kick-off in the UK is scheduled for 15:00. In South Africa it’s at 17:00 SAST, 04:00 NZST in New Zealand, 02:00 AEST in Australia and 07:00 EST in the US.
Gloucester-Hartpury Women RFC won the last encounter but Gloucester-Hartpury Women RFC are in the best form of their last 5 games.
Heading into the fixture the two sides are separated by just 5 places in the league table with Gloucester-Hartpury Women RFC in 1st and Loughborough Lightning in 6th underlining just how tight this match could be.
The official squads for Loughborough Lightning vs Gloucester-Hartpury Women RFC will become available around 24- 48 hours before kick-off. Teams can still make changes up to an hour before the match however.
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Sign up for freeAfter this weekend Premiership Women’s Rugby will have a five week hiatus for the winter.
It is mindboggling to think that we are about to enter a five week hiatus of the Premiership Women’s Rugby season.
Loughborough Lightning’s Carmela Morrall has packed in plenty of rugby to her life already.
With every weekend that passes we get to learn so much more about every Premiership Women’s Rugby club.
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Helen Nelson has kicked a conversion.
A wonderful passing move by Loughborough Lightning is finished off by Lia Green
Sarah Beckett (Gloucester-Hartpury) is shown a yellow card
The Gloucester-Hartpury supporters go wild as Emma Sing successfully kicks the conversion.
Gloucester-Hartpury are only a few metres out, surely they must score! And they do with Sisilia Tuipulotu touching down.
The touch judges raise their flags as Emma Sing kicks the conversion.
Nothing was going to stop Natasha Hunt from scoring as they record the try for Gloucester-Hartpury.
Slick passing by Gloucester-Hartpury leads to a try for Nel Metcalfe.
Gloucester-Hartpury are stopped just a few metres from the try line but Maud Muir picks up from the base of the ruck to score the try.
Emma Sing has kicked a conversion.
The Gloucester-Hartpury pack has powered over for Neve Jones to score the try.