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What to watch in women’s rugby: PWR final, Super Rugby Women’s
RugbyPass TV will showcase the best of women’s club rugby this weekend as the Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) final follows two mouthwatering Super Rugby Women’s matches.
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Saracens will bid to end Gloucester-Hartpury’s long reign as PWR champions, and rain on Sean Lynn’s farewell parade, when the teams meet in the English game’s showpiece match at StoneX Stadium on Sunday.
Before then, the race for the Super Rugby Women’s title will intensify as the Brumbies visit the Fijian Drua and Reds play host to the title holding Waratahs.
You can watch all the action and much, much more live and for free via RugbyPass TV*.
Blockbuster PWR final awaits
Following 18 regular season rounds and two barnstorming semi-finals, Gloucester-Hartpury and Saracens prepare for an epic PWR final at StoneX Stadium.
Back-to-back defending champions Gloucester-Hartpury have the opportunity to become the first team to win three successive titles since the English top-flight was rebranded in 2017.
Victory would also be a fitting way for Wales-bound head coach Lynn and prop Kathryn Buggy to sign off from their time in Cherry and White.
The Circus will have things far from their own way in north London, though, as Saracens attempt to emulate their opponents and win a PWR final on home soil.
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Saracens dominated the early editions of the restructured competition, winning three of the first four finals but Sunday will be their first appearance in the showpiece match since 2022.
If they are to win the final on their home ground – as Gloucester-Hartpury did in 2023 – however, they will have to do so in unfamiliar circumstances.
Due to the fact that Gloucester-Hartpury finished the regular season first in the table, the Circus are top seeds and therefore will have use of the home changing room.
Marlie Packer, Jess Breach and Co. will therefore have to prepare as if the away team at StoneX Stadium.
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Whether that will have an impact on the outcome remains to be seens but the regular season meetings suggest those in attendance will be treated to a high-scoring match.
An aggregate of 165 points were scored across the two matches as Saracens ran out 49-38 winners at the StoneX in October, while Gloucester-Hartpury were 47-31 victors in the return match two months later.
“You speak to Rhys Oakley the defence coach and he’s hoping not,” Lynn said this week when asked if fans could expect a similar scoreline this weekend.
“That’s something that we have been looking at, is trying to make sure that we take a grip of those kick-offs. When we score a try, I call it, ‘let’s cash the check’. So, that’s gonna be a real big focal point, making sure you can gather that momentum.”
Find out if Gloucester-Hartpury will cash the final check yet again or whether it will be Saracens celebrating for the first time in three years, live and for free via RugbyPass TV*.
Sunday, March 16
15:00 GMT – Gloucester-Hartpury v Saracens, StoneX Stadium – WATCH LIVE HERE
Super Rugby Women’s takes shape
Super Rugby Women’s 2025 continues in Australia and Fiji this weekend as title aspirations will be both strengthened and crushed.
Round three gets underway in Lautoka on Saturday, where the Fijian Drua take on the Brumbies hoping to bounce back from a home defeat to the Reds last time out.
The Brumbies arrive in Fiji fresh from a bye week but bottom of the standings, having opened their 2025 campaign with a 29-29 draw against Western Force in round one.
With matches against the Reds and Waratahs to come, a defeat in Lautoka would be potentially disastrous to the Brumbies’ hopes of making the semi-finals.
However, history is not on their side. The Brumbies have lost all three of their Super Rugby meetings with the Drua, including a 12-7 defeat in Nadi two years ago.
The Drua remain top of the table on points difference heading into round three, but a second-half fightback at Churchill Park wasn’t enough to prevent defeat to the Reds last weekend.
A vociferous home crowd was stunned into silence in Lautoka as the Reds built a 22-0 lead shortly after the break, and the Queenslanders were able to see out a 22-19 victory.
Things don’t get any easier for the Reds this weekend, though, as the Waratahs visit Ballymore Stadium on Sunday.
Having lost to the Drua in round one, the defending champions know a second defeat of the season would be damaging to their own hopes of making it to next month’s grand final.
It will be the first time the sides have met in Queensland since 2021, when Maya Stewart scored four of the Waratahs’ seven tries en route to a 47-26 win.
And the Waratahs are yet to taste defeat in the fixture, having won all 11 Super Rugby meetings between the sides, including grand final victories in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
Find out whether history repeats in Lautoka and Brisbane this weekend live and for free via RugbyPass TV*.
Saturday, March 15
03:35 GMT – Fijian Drua v Brumbies, Churchill Park – WATCH LIVE HERE
Sunday, March 16
04:05 GMT – Reds v Waratahs, Ballymore Stadium – WATCH LIVE HERE
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