Greg McWilliams’ team playing for their first win of this year’s women’s Six Nations
For good measure a smaller ball was also one of the suggestions, although it seems that much of the debate may belong with the thinking that women cannot win Grand Nationals at Aintree. All perfectly true until Rachael Blackmore came along.
Those numbers, however, do mean something as Ireland sit at the bottom of the Six Nations table with Italy above them and Scotland in third place, all three teams without a win so far.In total the Irish team has shipped 84 points in their opening two games against Wales and France and scored eight points, so there is patching up to be done in Parma by a team that is critically short on international experience.
But Sevens players such as Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe and Beibhinn Parsons are not involved in this Six Nations series leaving McWilliams to work with what he has got including a debutant 18-year-old prop Sadhbh McGrath, who was named against Wales and in today’s squad. Lock Nichola Fryday with 31 caps remains the most experienced player in the match day squad with Linda Djougang at loosehead prop not far behind with 26 caps. Thirteen of the 23 players number caps in single figures with nine of those four caps or less.
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