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Alison Kervin: The game is flourishing – don’t make it different

If you have been to any women’s rugby matches recently, you will have witnessed scenes that were unimaginable a decade ago: a full house, the roar of the crowd, singing, joy and delight.
England fly-half Zoe Harrison

Alison Kervin OBE

If you have been to any women’s rugby matches recently, you will have witnessed scenes that were unimaginable a decade ago: a full house, the roar of the crowd, singing, joy and delight.
This is what women’s rugby looks like now: a game that has earned its ground, inch by inch.
Which is why World Rugby’s decision to trial a smaller ball in the women’s game is so badly misjudged.
The athletes themselves are not asking for it. England fly-half Zoe Harrison has called it “the worst decision ever made”.
Threatened by change
And she’s right, because the sport’s reputation, cr...

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