By Ben Jaycock

This season’s truncated Women’s Premiership sprint will be rounded off next Sunday as Gloucester-Hartpury bid for an unprecedented threepeat, while previous serial winners Saracens look to return to the summit.
A competition that was played across at least seven months in each of the previous four seasons was crammed into five this time around in an attempt to aid England’s bid to win their home World Cup.
Gloucester-Hartpury co-captain Natasha Hunt admitted the shortened season had been “brutal”.
Hunt paid tribute to the sacrifices made by her team mates for whom rugby is no...