{"id":16190,"date":"2024-04-16T07:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T07:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/british-and-irish-lions-women-3m-fund-aims-to-ensure-first-womens-team-is-more-than-just-england\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T07:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T07:24:44","slug":"british-and-irish-lions-women-3m-fund-aims-to-ensure-first-womens-team-is-more-than-just-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/british-and-irish-lions-women-3m-fund-aims-to-ensure-first-womens-team-is-more-than-just-england\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Irish Lions women: \u00a33m fund aims to ensure first women’s team is more than just England"},"content":{"rendered":"


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England’s Shaunagh Brown, Scot Megan Gaffney, Wales’ Elinor Snowsill and Niamh Briggs of Ireland helped launch the women’s Lions team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A \u00a33m grant will aim to ensure the first British & Irish Lions women’s team are not England in all but name.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there are concerns over the potential balance of the squad, with England having won 17 of the last 25 Five or Six Nations titles.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, Lions sponsors are to provide funding to try to develop players and coaches in all the home nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Funding will be given to Wales, Scotland and Ireland, as well as England, to try to “level the playing field”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former England flanker Maggie Alphonsi said <\/span>action was needed to make the Six Nations more competitive<\/span><\/a>, with the Red Roses on course for a sixth successive title after they beat Scotland 46-0 in Edinburgh on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wales have never won the Six Nations and are bottom of this year’s table with three defeats.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Welsh Rugby Union said the new funding from Royal London will pay for five new staff members to bolster its women’s pathway coaching, including a performance coach, set-piece and skills coaches, and a head of physical development. <\/span><\/p>\n

It will also invest in programmes aimed at identifying talent across Wales as well as players outside the country who qualify to represent Wales.<\/span><\/p>\n

WRU executive director of rugby Nigel Walker said: “This is vital and welcome funding which we will make full use of in a way that will have an immediate, direct and positive impact on our performance pathway in the women’s game.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We will focus on talent identification and growth as well as bringing in significant new additional coaching, development and science-based support.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scotland last won the Home Nations Championship – played between the four unions – in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Scottish Rugby Union will recruit two coaches and aim to deliver additional camps and training matches for their women’s under-18s and under-20s teams, as well as the national academy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ireland are the only team other than England or France to win the Six Nations title – in 2013 and 2015 – though they finished bottom last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Irish Rugby Football Union will also host additional age-grade camps and work with universities to identify playing talent and developing a coaching scholarship programme.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rugby Football Union will use its share of the grant to further develop its current programmes, including skill work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lions chief executive Ben Calveley said the grant was a “significant investment” in supporting the growth of the women’s game across the nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tour to New Zealand will take place in September 2027. It will include three Tests against world champions the Black Ferns, though a full schedule has yet to be finalised. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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