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Women's Rugby World Cup

England name 42-player World Cup training squad

CORK, IRELAND: APRIL 12: The England team during team presentations before the Ireland v England, Women's Six Nations Rugby match at Virgin Media Park on April 12th, 2025, in Cork, Ireland. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)

England Head Coach John Mitchell has named 42 players which make up his 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup training squad, including two Under-20 players.

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The squad, comprising of 23 forwards and 19 backs, assembled at Hazelwood on Monday 2nd June for the Red Roses‘ first training camp of the summer after a period of rest following the Six Nations Championship.

34 of the 42 featured during England’s Grand Slam-winning Women’s Six Nations campaign.

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England’s opening match of the Rugby World Cup will take place against the USA at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland on Friday 22nd August 2025.

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England Women’s Rugby World Cup training squad:

Forwards
Zoe Aldcroft
Lark Atkin-Davies
Sarah Bern
Hannah Botterman
Georgia Brock
Abi Burton
May Campbell
Mackenzie Carson
Kelsey Clifford
Amy Cokayne
Maddie Feaunati
Rosie Galligan
Lizzie Hanlon
Lilli Ives Campion
Sadia Kabeya
Alex Matthews
Maud Muir
Cath O’Donnell
Marlie Packer
Simi Pam
Connie Powell
Morwenna Talling
Abbie Ward

Backs
Holly Aitchison
Jess Breach
Millie David*
Abby Dow
Zoe Harrison
Tatyana Heard
Natasha Hunt
Megan Jones
Ellie Kildunne
Claudia MacDonald
Lucy Packer
Sarah Parry*
Flo Robinson
Helena Rowland
Emily Scarratt
Jade Shekells
Emma Sing
Mia Venner
Ella Wyrwas

*Denotes Under-20s player

Players rehabbing an injury: Mackenzie Carson (ankle), Ellie Kildunne (hamstring), Claudia MacDonald (knee), Abbie Ward (toe) will all continue their return to fitness in camp.

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N T 14 minutes ago
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Where's yours mate?

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N T 14 minutes ago
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They did, you can see a lot of thought went in on it. Never easy to make an opinion that suits everyone!

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N T 16 minutes ago
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Rugbypass upped the stats game in the last few years, best place for fixtures and player stats hands down

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JW 32 minutes ago
Springboks rule the skies as access law leads to more kicking

Yeah same! I’ve thought they were interesting enough to look for but in general my summation is that they are normal fairly minor even irrelevant factors, if not that I just plain disagree with him.

That could be me of course, he has a word limit so can’t really go on and on explaining the importance of the things he points out and I suspect you really have to almost avoid enjoying a game to catch things like who was doing what in a lineout. I was always a bit of a ball watcher though, still nice that some else feels as unenlightened!



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JW 50 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

ABs are clearly #2 atm. What do you mean turned over? That was a very even game without all that went against them.

Theres nothing to show that England can do the same. England are a little like SA in that they don’t know what there best team is yet I suppose, they might be able to offer a lot better than what they did.



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JW 54 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

HH as stoic as the SB! Santas littles helpers would be doing the normal wishes of teams, we need the big man himself this year!

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JW 56 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

Even if they were they also weren’t in the losses in Londen and Wellington.

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JW 57 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

You don’t need IQ to work out that you need to give it a go. That’s his stumbling block, loyalty, pride etc, once he overcomes that we’ll see if he’s got the IQ to make it work.

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JW 1 hour ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

I think that fire has gone from him tbh. Yes, I think he’s continuing because he’s asked to do it, but the second its said that it didn’t work and theyre going to challenge their own idea on how to play and use. Then he will quickly retire instead of provide peicemeal options for a coach.

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JW 1 hour ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers



Be in charge, give an air of actual authority. Let everyone with a stake in this great game know that you have a plan and are executing it.

Who’s plan, Robinsons? No one new is going to have a plan, at least you would hope not given they wouldn’t even know what theyre doing yet.



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Jen 1 hour ago
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HAH. I’m not sure but certainly worth some digging, just in case. 😆

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JW 1 hour ago
Six Wallabies abroad who must come into the reckoning in 2026

One of our Lomax relatives Jen? Eligible for the All Blacks? :D

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ED 2 hours ago
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12-17….waiting for Ryans card……Yellow oof

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Hellhound 2 hours ago
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That is a scary looking team yes

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Hellhound 3 hours ago
Pat Lam blasts 'archaic' process that lost the All Blacks Tony Brown

Now you are just being a woke, jealous fool. With the way things are run in NZ, no wonder he couldn't make a success there. Now that he is out shining any other New Zealanders, including their star players, now he is bitter and resentful and all sorts of hate speeches against him. That is what the fans like you do. Those in NZ who does have enough sense not to let pride cloud their vision, is all saying the same thing. NZ needs TB. Razor was made out to be a rugby coaching God by the fans, so much so that Foz was treated like the worst piece of shitte. Especially after the Twickenham disaster right before the WC. Ad then he nearly won the WC too with 14 players. As a Saffa the way he handled the media and the pressure leading up to the WC, was just extraordinary and I have gained a lot of respect for that man. Now your so called rugby coaching God managed to lose by an even bigger margin, IN NZ. All Razor does is overplay his players and he will never get the best out of those players, and let's face it, the current crop is good enough to be the best. However, they need an coach they can believe in completely. I don't think the players have bought into his coaching gig. TB was lucky to shake the dust of his boots when he left NZ, because only when he did that, did his career go from strength to strength. He got a WC medal to his name. Might get another if the Boks can keep up the good work. New exciting young talent is set to join soon after the WC as dangerous as SFM and Kolbe. Trust me, he doesn't want the AB's job. He is very happy in SA with the Boks. We score, you lose a great coach. We know quality when we see it, we don't chuck it in the bin like NZRU likes to do. Your coaching God is hanging on by a thread to keep his job🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Jen 3 hours ago
Six Wallabies abroad who must come into the reckoning in 2026

I think he means Zac Lomax, an NRL winger, who is reported to be looking to switch codes.

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cw 3 hours ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

Simplify. Stop trying to be the smartest in the room. That’s been taken.

Play to our strengths. Simple direct ball in hand rugby at speed.



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Kashmir Pete 3 hours ago
Six Wallabies abroad who must come into the reckoning in 2026

Great article John,

Appreciate optimism you provide. Will be delighted if Wallabies simply make semis of our home WRC, and what your article brings for me, is that is very much doable.



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Hammer Head 3 hours ago
Pat Lam blasts 'archaic' process that lost the All Blacks Tony Brown

Tony Brown is better off at the Boks. And in the long run, if NZ Rugby can get their house in order enough for their to be good enough reason for him getting into the AB setup, the ABs will better for it.

The last four years and next two years buggering around in the wilderness with NZRU would be a waste of his talents and valuable career years and experience actually achieving results.



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Hellhound 3 hours ago
Pat Lam blasts 'archaic' process that lost the All Blacks Tony Brown

Tony is already revered by the SA fans. His influence is as integral as Rassie’s in the team. He may be from NZ, but his blood is green. Long may he stay with the Boks, and with Rassie signing to 2031, it's more than likely that Tony will also resign when his contract is up. What coach wouldn't? The talent he get to work with, the coaching setup that is shared and not a dictatorship, the freedom to express himself. He got everything he wants. I can't see him leaving the Bok setup soon.

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