The Irish hooker recently won another Premiership title with Gloucester-Hartpury.
TWO WEEKENDS AGO, Ireland hooker Neve Jones started for Gloucester-Hartpury as they beat Saracens to claim their third consecutive Premiership Women’s Rugby title.
As ever, she launched herself into contact with energy and notched a try at the back of Ireland’s impressive maul. “We’re used to playing rugby week in, week out. It’s just a mindset thing – now we’re in camp, it’s for the green jersey.” She delivers plenty of big hits but can also engineer choke tackles, can jackal at the breakdown, and is adept at barging after she makes tackles.“I guess being a middle child of three siblings that are close in age, maybe something like that.”
“I played mini rugby from six or seven. Being the smallest on the pitch, my dad was like, ‘We’ll work on the tackle.’ Hookers often get blamed when things go wrong at the lineout, so there’s no doubt Jones is relieved to be throwing into a smooth-running set-piece.
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