Week 2 Highlights Women's Six Nations Rugby

MUSIC.

Hello and welcome to the women's Six

Nations. Last weekend the action was

fast and furious with Wales, France

and England notching up victories.

MUSIC.

Welcome to the home of the Glasgow

Warriors which tonight host Scotland

and France. The visitors come after

a dominant performance against

Ireland last weekend but over in

Dublin the Irish are looking to

redeem themselves and they take on

Italy after that whitewash.

Italy after that whitewash. I am at

the Twickenham Stoop for England

against Wales. There is some

partisan support behind me. I am

joined by former England captain

Catherine Spencer. Let's start off

with England, did they stutter

against Italy?

I am not sure starter

is the right word but they had a

poor first half giving away

penalties and making basic errors

and made up for it in the second

half.

Was it an opposite story from

Wales, who started strongly against

Scotland but fell away in the second

half?

Exactly, they had a good first

half but Scotland made positional

changes. They struggled with fitness

in the second half and we will see

how long they can play well today. I

think it will be a competitive first

half.

It promises to be a fantastic

fixture. We have royalty. Prince

Harry is watching. The commentary

team is Johnny Hanno -- Johnny

Hammond.

team is Johnny Hanno -- Johnny

Hammond.

Waterman moves back to the preferred

15 shirt. England still looking

15 shirt. England still looking for

that perfect fit.

that perfect fit. Wales welcome back

experience. Charlotte Harrison come

straight back in at eight -- Sinead

Harris -- Sioned Harries. Parker

partners veteran of two World Cups

Wilkinson. And Eleanor snow --

Eleanor

Eleanor so -- Snowsill is back.

Running the line-out for England.

Has been there go to. Technically

good in that area but Wales have

defended really well. Got it to

ground. Poppy Cleall is there.

Player of the match last week. She

backs it up in this round for their

second try.

Just gets over the line

and has the time to place it. The

referee saw it before the players

managed to celebrate.

Daley-Mclean had to stop for the

pass. Abigail Dow will not be denied

this time. Try number seven in this

her fourth cap.

An outrageous

statistic, Abigail Dow. She is an

excellent finisher. Really strong

and aware and brilliant in defence.

Look at this from Waterman, looking

in and out. Breaking the space for

Abigail Dow and she makes no mistake

from there.

Scott was a little bit upright and

Sioned Harries dealt with her well.

Here comes Sarah Bern.

Here comes Sarah Bern. Leanne Riley.

Comes openside.

Comes openside. And England at a

canter. Pouring forward.

They have

already chalked up try number three.

She looks one way and realises that

is where the Welsh defence is and

decides to go the other.

Butchers tried to turn that ball

over. Just smashed off it. She has

serious gas! Here it is and the

bonus point already within half an

hour.

Too many threatening runners

out there for Wales. They never

regroups properly.

regroups properly.

-- regrouped.

Wales are being told to pick up

there discipline.

England just put their foot down on

the pedals. The power pedal. As they

have the ability to do. Such a

technically sound unit. They want to

go all the way. Marlee -- Marlie

Packer driving the bus. It is over

the line. The referee can see it.

She awards it. Who will emerge?

It

is Marlie Packer. The patients. The

ball takes an age to get to the

floor once they get over the line

but it gets there eventually.

Good

from Amy Cokayne. Down on the far

side.

side. Daley-Mclean. For Rachael

Burford.

Burford. The dummy with the scrum.

A

lovely score. It is a lovely piece

of skill from Rachael Burford. Those

are not easy with the ball low. You

have to get it right. A brilliant

combination from the experienced

ten, 12.

Hunter sets off.

ten, 12.

Hunter sets off. Great

pick-up as it normally is from Sarah

Hunter. Into the corner. It is Poppy

Cleall. Three tries in two weeks.

It

is a very good finish. Two tries

again. Becoming a more dominant

force for this England team.

Giving more opportunities to England

and some space. Ellie Kildunne! My

word, what a score from the

teenager.

Absolutely audacious! What

a try! This is a try worthy of

Danielle Waterman. The gas that took

her over the line, that is an

outstanding try from the England

youngster.

That is some way to

finish this game. Superb.

finish this game. Superb. Applause

from Prince Harry. England, a job

well done and the full ten points.

It is really good for the team. I

cannot believe they are such a good

pack. The second row is running the

line-out. I am proud of the

performance and proud of my

performance and I want to go out

there and do myself proud and

everybody proud. In the second half

we came out better than the first.

Our defence are incredible. We are

proud of keeping a zero on the

scoresheet.

An

proud of keeping a zero on the

scoresheet.

An incredibly polished

performance and I am delighted to

say we have been joined by Tamara

Taylor. Congratulations, H tries.

How good did it feel on the part?

I

know the score is big but there is

still a lot for asked to work on.

Some tries went begging in the first

half. Second game in and a couple

more to go and lots of work.

You and

Abbie Scott running the England

line-out. Where you satisfied in

that area?

They had a good drive in

the midfield area but we came in to

attack the set piece and line-out

and scrum, looking back in review

hopefully it will be a positive

experience.

Over 100 caps. You have

been around a few years. How

impressed are you by the likes of

Ellie Kildunne, who had another

great game?

It is genuinely nice to

have the experienced players and

young kids like LE coming

young kids like LE coming through --

Ellie coming through. There is so

much talent across the country and

those coming through are the start

hopefully of what will be a

fantastic long career for England.

Thank you for braving the elements.

Congratulations.

That incredible England victory

getting the royal seal of approval.

It is cold and wet tonight.

Thankfully no snow, unlike three

weeks ago when there was a winter

storm before the ironically named

warm up match that had to be

cancelled. Ground staff could not

clear the snow. Thankfully no snow

and how Scotland would love to get a

victory in front of this home crowd.

They came so close against Wales.

But they have a huge task against

the impressive French side. Your

commentator

the impressive French side. Your

commentator is Nicky.

commentator is Nicky. COMMENTATOR:

Laura has been rewarded for her role

in getting Scotland going last week.

Malcolm is back at flanker. And

Macmillan moves to prop. Chloe

Rollie the ever present attacking

threat at 15. France make two

changes.

Scotland looking to punch a hole

around the side of Safi N'Diaye, who

looks to hold it up. France have

turned it over. A huge hit on Lisa

Martin.

The referee has given the knock-on.

This was the pass, Camille Boudaud.

Scotland, you can hear them shouting

try to hold the pressure. Romane

Menager controls it well at the

back. The referee not wasting too

much time in giving the penalty. It

will be a chance for Jessy

Tremouliere to open France's

account.

account. Only slotted two out of

seven last week against Ireland. The

Scottish captain recognising the

moment to go in and play like a

flanker. Emma Wassell, good feet. I

thought Lise Arricastre had got in

there. The referee once staying on

their feet.

The decision here is the Scotland,

to have their first opportunity for

points in the game.

points in the game. Scotland have

the lead. Sarah Law goes through the

uprights.

The Harlequins ladies second row,

superb at the line-out. Somebody is

going to the bin. The referee is

sticking to his word.

sticking to his word. Patricia

Carricaburu is going to descend bin.

Scotland don't have too many players

to defend it to begin with. They

need to get the cavalry in place if

they are going to stop this French

attack, which they can't. We now

have danger is France can be from

this sort of range and that was

textbook from Agathe Sochat.

textbook from Agathe Sochat. Decent

kick over the top. It is absolutely

brilliant from France. Cyrielle

Banet is going to finish it off, but

it was the vision from Pauline

Bourdon. Didn't look like too much

was on. Pauline Bourdon, spotted the

opportunity, send it downfield.

France try and look for the power

and pace game we are so used to

seeing from them. Scotland are

putting up a stern fight.

putting up a stern fight. Scotland

are only a penalty way of getting a

losing bonus. It is France in

possession at the moment. The French

look more dangerously

look more dangerously stop it is

trying three for France. Suddenly be

opened tin. They can be so danger is

around the corner. France will be

eyeing up the chance to get the

fourth try and the bonus point.

fourth try and the bonus point. They

have got themselves close. The ball

is available. It is available for

Jade Le Pesq. No they fire into the

right. As the Scottish defence don't

enough? It appears so, then France

go to the base of the posts. Referee

is going to have a look.

I haven't

seen the ball grounded against the

poll. Can you advise me yes or no,

please?

It looks pretty good from

there for Jade Le Pesq.

The ball has

been grounded, you may award the

try.

The try has been given.

Brilliant work from Jade Le Pesq and

the fourth try bonuses secured.

the fourth try bonuses secured. No

problem at all. The referee blows

the final whistle, it has been a

great performance by Scotland. It

has been get the job done

performance from France. They have

their pace and power game nullified

by the home side. What a match, at

great conditions but at least no

snow. I am joined by the Scotland

coach and Jade. France come with

such clout, we were expecting a bit

battle -- big battle, and the fact

you lost by a big score, how do you

feel about that?

I am proud of the

team, everybody stepped up against

the physicality battle. France are

renowned for going strong. Everybody

stepped up and it is something we

can take away and build on. Everyone

has done so well, I cannot explain

how proud I am of their efforts

tonight.

He said France will always

going to be a big as, but you must

be proud of how the girls defended,

particularly in the first half?

Coming into this game after the

Welsh game last week, physicality

was a big work on for us. The

challenge was, can we hope it and

they definitely did that. Would the

size of the French team and the

reputation and players they have

got, given the result we had last

year, the team has developed hugely

and from the physicality point of

view, we got stuck in number girls

should be proud of themselves.

You

put in some big hits and you are

playing your rugby in France, how is

it going for you? You have taken to

it and the team love you and the

girls love you, it seems to be a

great match, as it were?

It is a

fantastic opportunity that Scottish

rugby has allowed me to do. I have

grown with my rugby and learnt a lot

on and off the pitch. It is good

because I can bring stuff back I

have learned over there. It is an

opportunity of a lifetime and one

that has been beneficial for my

progress as a player.

How important

is it to have players like Jade and

others who have taken to the

professional sport, but going to

France, learning new skills and

bringing them back and raising the

bar in Scottish rugby, so it is on

the up?

It is fantastic, the support

we have got here, it was an early

3000 people. The girls playing in

France makes a big difference to the

girls (. The girls who play in the

Super League in England as well. It

raises the bar for the girls who are

home based here. Hopefully that

transfers into the whole team and it

transfers onto the pitch.

That is

the plan. It is easy to forget when

we look at these matches in

isolation that Scotland is

relatively young in comparison to

France, who finished third in the

World Cup in England who finished

second in the welcome. Where do you

think the Scottish game for the

women is now?

It is continuously

growing, as you said we are a young

team and to improve year and yet, we

are a young team coming through and

everybody is sticking to it and

buying in. It is fantastic we can

keep on building. It was a great

performance from us but nowhere near

where we are going to be. It is a

journey we will progress on. It is

only the beginning, we're not here

to mess about in this championship,

we are here to improve year on year.

Thank you for your company this

evening, our final match of this

evening was Ireland against Italy.

Let's handed over to the commentary

team.

COMMENTATOR: Briggs has got players

outside her. Good science from

Ireland in the opening

Ireland in the opening minutes of

intent. Looks like Ali Miller has

done herself damage. It is tough to

watch. We are not going to Recio the

pictures.

pictures. There is a applause for up

Alison Miller.

Alison Miller. Paula Fitzpatrick...

Hughes has a look.

Hughes has a look. Italy,

desperately defending. They are

holding firm for the moment. There

is Williams and over the post and

Ireland have their first points of

the six Nations for 2018.

Powerful

scrum put Italy under pressure. They

moved the ball through the phases.

Going at the Italians and the

Italians get sucked in. It is an

easy running for Megan Williams.

easy running for Megan Williams.

Set

up the conversion attempt. Seven

points for Ireland. A rare

opportunity with ball in hand on 22.

The Italians have numbers out wide.

Ireland get their defensive line.

They have players both sides. They

choose to go left and the referee

says Ireland are not rolling away

against Lindsay Peat. A penalty for

the Italians. Michaela Sillari with

this first attempt on goal from

either side. Over it goes, as you

would expect and Italy with the last

kick of the half have their first

points on the board. Claire Molloy

goes herself.

goes herself. Leah Lyons, the

Italians continued to make the

tackles. Lindsay Peat... Short, says

the rhetoric, but not by much and

Ireland feel they are over. And they

are.

are. Is it the captain? It is. Try

for Keira Griffin. Well, they banged

on the door long enough and

eventually it opened.

eventually it opened. It is good.

14-3.

14-3. Ireland get the scrum moving

in the right direction. This is

ominous for the Italians. It is at

the feet of Griffin. She finishes.

Try number three for Ireland and try

number two per the captain. If there

was any doubt about this game, that

is bad. On its way and over it goes.

-- that is that. The Italians win

the line-out and three metres short.

Consolation, potentially for the

Italians and they are over the line.

Ingo Italy.

Ingo Italy. Chants for Michaela

Sillari. Doesn't have the legs and

that will be that.

Massive, been

awhile since we have had a win and

it is a massive boost for the girls

we played the most expansive rugby.

It shows we can move the ball around

and threatened teams in attack. We

were disappointed we conceded at the

end, but we know what we have to

work on against Wales.

Ireland (

count against Italy. England and

France at the top and their match in

March looks like a title decider.

The Six Nations takes a break next

week, players recover and fans get

their breath back and the

championship returns in two weeks,

but there is plenty more sport

coming up on BBC. Live coverage of

the Winter Olympics continues on BBC

One right now.

the Winter Olympics continues on BBC

One right now. It has been another

great weekend of women Six Nations

Rugby and thanks for watching and we

will see you next time. Goodbye.