Trials and Tribulations of Running a Women’s Rugby Fancast: Sale Sharks Women (H) Review with Gwalia Gainline

About this episode

Jacob and guest Sarah discuss the challenges of running a women's rugby fancast and review a match involving Sale Sharks Women.

In this episode, Jacob is joined by Sarah who is part of the sister act who run Gwalia Gainline, the only other women's club fancast in the UK. They chat about Nottingham's chance at history to win their North/South playoff into BUCS Super Rugby Women (BSRW) and other news. After then, they have a broad discussion on the challenges of running a women's rugby fancast, and why they're so rare. Finally, it can't be avoided, in an initially competitive and fiesty encounter with Sale ended in anot...

People in this episode

Host: Jacob Bassford

Guest: Sarah

Topics covered

• women's rugby
• fancast challenges
• playoff discussions
• rugby history
• Sale Sharks Women

Keywords

• women's rugby
• fancast
• playoffs
• BUCS Super Rugby
• Sale Sharks
• rugby challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gwalia Gainline, Nottingham, Sale Sharks Women

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