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Scotland Women to train together for 11 weeks ahead of WRWC
By PA
Scotland Women will train together for 11 weeks ahead of the World Cup in New Zealand later this year after a financial agreement was struck with the squad.
The Scottish Rugby Union has agreed individual financial packages with 36 players to compensate them for time taken out of work or studies in line with their personal salaries or situations, in addition to existing payments for internationals.
The SRU says the agreement will take its investment in the squad beyond £500,000 in 2022.
Scotland head coach Bryan Easson said: “To have the players training from Monday to Friday for 11 weeks will be hugely beneficial to our programme for the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, as we will be able to go into a lot more depth and detail in our on-field and off-field work than ever before.”
Captain Rachel Malcolm added that the squad were “delighted” with the news.
“We have a real opportunity now to get ourselves in the best possible shape to compete at the Rugby World Cup and inspire the next generation of young girls in Scotland,” she said.
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Steve Borthwick appointment was misguided based on two flawed premises.
1. An overblown sense of the quality of the premiership rugby. The gap between the Premiership and Test rugby is enormous
2. England needed an English coach who understood English Rugby and it's traditional strengths.
SB won the premiership and was an England forward and did a great job with the Japanese forwards but neither of those qualify you as a tier 1 test manager.
Maybe Felix Jones and Aled Walter's departures are down to the fact that SB is a details man, which work at club level but at test level you need the manager to manage and let the coaches get on and do what they are employed for.
SB criticism of players is straight out of Eddie Jones playbook but his loyalty to keeping out of form players borne out of his perceived sense of betrayal as a player.
In all it doesn't stack up as the qualities needed to be a modern Test coach /Manager
Go to commentsBut still Australians. Only Australia can help itself seems to be the key message.
Blaming Kiwis is deflecting from the actual problem.
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