This is Heart Rugby made me brought to you by British Airways. I'm Alma Smith and I'm in Worcester today. At the home of Worcester Warriors, we're a very good friend of our Scars and Moe has been playing her rugby pretty much for her entire journey.

She's one of those players who were there in 2014 in Paris when they lifted the trophy, and she's been an absolute world-beating tricegring machine for the Red Roses for, well, a decade pretty much.

If you're one of those fans who has only started paying attention to the women's game over the last two years, then when I say Lydia Thompson, you probably think about that red card moment in the 17th minute of the final against the Black Ferns.

In front of a sold-out even park, a painful one for anyone watching on, but particularly so for England that day. When she came back from New Zealand, this is where they picked her up and put her back together again here in Worcester, and the people at this club.

And so the journey back from there has been a long and very painful one, but in a late curveball just before we came up to Worcester to come speak to her here,

it's also transpired that at the 11th hour just before the start of the Premiership Women's Rugby League season, this team has lost their financial backing.

And so there is so much insecurity in the air around here right now, and Lydia has still agreed to talk to me.

Hello!

Hi!

I've got you to have me here.

Thank you.

This is obviously the nice side. I've only ever been in the stands.

Yeah, they say, and this is a nice side.

I haven't had the full hospital experience yet, so you need to leave the way.

And be great to share your round.

We have just stepped into a room that, I mean, they could film traders here if they needed to.

Maybe we are.

It's very medieval in certain really interesting ways outside of the ceiling, and it has the Worcester logo in the back with some wrought iron.

And it's got, there are horns around the lights. What is this? A clubhouse room?

Yeah, I guess it's a boardroom with a pitch attached.

A boardroom with also some places where you can get a pint.

So the clubs, when you're in the really nice seats, this is the area where they serve you snacks and drinks right behind your little box.

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