Five Lives Rugby Union Weekly.

It's the open weekend of the Women's Rugby World Cup in the bag for the Home Nations.

Massive win to the Red Rose over USA, 69.7.

That was emphatic.

Scotland, where they dismantled Wales despite all of their off-field issues.

And Ireland also got off a winning start

at the Gardens against Japan so there's lots to discuss and we've got great company sorry orchard well

some great company okay to Daly McLean how are you right I don't know who the insult is you're

you you you you okay what happened what happened with you too Nothing. This is just our working relationship. It's how we roll, you know? It's the only way we feel comfortable but have not proper one another. Honestly, if I could read out some of the messages from my WhatsApp, I won't. But all have them been targeted at me. Should we save that for the last pod of the walk-up?

Yeah, exactly.

We love it as a bit of a debrief.

I look forward to that.

How have you both enjoyed the opening weekend? I've absolutely loved it. I am emotionally and physically exhausted. There's no two ways about it. You do look a bit paler than when I saw you on Friday. I didn't realize how many different places I could visit in the northeast

in the space

of just sort of like a four-hour period. I mean, Durham, Newcastle and suddenly not really close

together. And I was like the triangle between them quite consistently for about four days.

And then Manchester yesterday, that match between Scotland and Wales just blew me away.

And then back here at Northampton today, what a performance by Ireland. And we are keeping a little bit of a look out

the window at the moment because it is South Africa taking on Brazil, making their World Cup debut.

This is good. As your phone goes off, Hugo Monnier. Yeah, my phone goes off. That's an alarm.

So that's the end of this episode of Rugby to Wigley.

Let's start at the start, because it was an incredible performance by Red Rose's only usurped

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