Ruthless Red Roses thrash Scotland

About this episode

The episode discusses England's dominant victory over Scotland in women's rugby and explores the challenges faced by the Scottish team.

Sara Orchard is joined by World Cup winner Katy Daley-McLean and former Scotland fly-half Lisa Martin as England beat Scotland 84-7. A record-breaking crowd watched on at Murrayfield as England put 12 tries on Scotland to continue their charge for the grand slam. What do Scotland need to do to gain a greater depth of players? How differently does their model need to be, to compete with England? As for the Red Roses, how well have they adapted to forced changes? Plus, the team consider the next round. Timecodes: 0'45 Record breaking attendance at Murrayfield 5'30 Scotland's depth issues 9'40 Changing the Scotland model 14'39 England's pace 17'49 Next round of fixtures

People in this episode

Host: Sara Orchard

Guests: Katy Daley-McLean, Lisa Martin

Topics covered

• Rugby
• Women's Rugby
• England vs Scotland
• World Cup
• Player Development

Keywords

• Red Roses
• Scotland
• England
• World Cup
• rugby
• Murrayfield
• player depth
• grand slam
• tries

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: England, Scotland

Places: Murrayfield

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