Hello and welcome to the scrumfire podcast.

What an opening round of the women's rugby World Cup we've just had.

42,728 present in

Sunderland for the opening round.

A record crowd for women's World Cup match.

Dazzling rugby, excellent commentary

statement wins across the board.

But show and lily crap,

Philip Atettiatt yet again,

it sort of feels like everyone's having a good time at the rugby party and Wales have yet to arrive.

Philippa, are you in? Have you got your dancing shoes on?

Well, no, Wales did arrive, but they left out the back door pretty early and didn't stay for the party.

Oh, gutted. What a contrast and emotion from such a fantastic opening night on the Friday night with

England all the razzle-dazzle, you know, incredible crowds out at the stadium, awesome fan zone,

so psyched for the game and then left in a very, very somber mood.

It's a difficult one, you know, know coming in this morning it's difficult to judge

the tone isn't it isn't it sure and because there is overall a really upbeat feeling after round

one a tournament is much bigger than it used to be in the past but we can't ignore the fact that

not only did whales lose but in such a disappointing fashion.

Yeah, absolutely. My mood is definitely different this week, Lauren, too, was last week. And I think

what was pleasing for me is to see the growth of the women's game, the people are behind

it, the record crowds, the atmosphere that is around this competition. But we all thought

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