Lark Atkin-Davies ran in a hat-trick as Bristol Bears kept their Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) semi-final hopes alive with a 45-17 victory against Exeter Chiefs at Ashton Gate.
Celtic Challenge and Premiership Women’s Rugby action continues this weekend, with two games live on RugbyPass TV.
The Welsh national team are currently in free fall under head coach Warren Gatland, with defeat to South Africa in their closing Autumn Nations Series outing their record-setting 12th loss on the bounce.
Beaten finalists in 2007 and 2019, the English were eliminated by defending champions South Africa in the semi-finals at the most recent World Cup last October, losing to a last-minute penalty in Paris kicked by Handre Pollard.
Abi Burton made her return to the Olympic Games as Great Britain lost to China, just two years after she was put into an induced coma after being diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis.
Former tour captain Sam Warburton has made some wild selections in his latest British & Irish Lions selection.
The former Wales and Lions captain had been suffering from injury.
The former Lions captain and now respected broadcaster has his say on academy pathways, rugby's doomsayers and Louis Rees-Zammit
Great Britain player Abi Burton is another example of a player going from fighting for life to starring back out on the rugby field. It was spring 2022 when the now 24-year-old Tokyo Olympian was in crisis.
Former British and Irish Lions skipper Sam Warburton has been so impressed by new England cap Chandler Cunningham-South that he has tipped the 20-year-old to be in the blindside conversation for next year’s tour to Australia.