Red Roses commence title defence in front of record crowd
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Sara Orchard is joined by 2014 World Cup winner with England, Kat Merchant and former Ireland international, Anna Caplice as England beat Ireland 33-12 in the first round of the women's Six Nations.
The team react to the new-look England and a stellar performance from new captain Meg Jones. Hear from wives; Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald and Claudia Moloney-MacDonald after they play against each other for the first time! Are there signs of Ireland closing the gap on England? And is there any possibility of England being beaten during this campaign?
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| 0:43.6 | Well, finally, the music has been turned off at the Allian Stadium. |
| 0:48.5 | The moas are out. |
| 0:49.4 | They're going up and down the pitch. |
| 0:50.5 | They've even got yellow bits of string to make sure that they go in straight |
| 0:54.6 | lines. There's even a mower and the man pushing it is wearing a red roses cowboy hat. That is |
| 1:01.0 | commitment. We love it. Of course, this is now the women's six nations we're talking about here |
| 1:05.3 | of rugby union weekly. England have opened their account. Of course, with a try bonus win, |
| 1:10.4 | they've beaten Ireland 33 points to 12. I'm Orchard the eagle-eyed Anna Capeless spotting red cowboy hats on people mowing lawns how are you I'm fine I'm great just very mixed emotions after that but we will get into it okay okay cat merchant former England World Cup winner how do you feel after that one? Yeah, I'm feeling good. Yeah? Yeah. Okay. You look a little bit like you're still pondering the world. I think that's just my face. Oh, okay. All right. Okay. Well, we are going to get into it. It, as I said, it's just dialed down a couple of notches here inside the big house because it has been a bit manic as it can be at full time. |
| 1:46.5 | We were actually a little bit worried about Ellie Kildun, who we were watching. |
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