European Championships, Asia Gender Equity Committee and COVID Suspensions | WRR 49

Welcome to the top women's rugby news in under 60 seconds for Jan 3-9. We start with Spain’s announcement of "warm-up" matches against Italy and Colombia as they prepare for the European Championships, we review round 10 of Allianz Premier 15s and we look ahead to Ireland's AIL semi-final matchups. In more XVs news, Asia has rebranded their ‘Women’s Advisory Committee, to be the “Gender Equity Committee”, Hong Kong has suspended all rugby due to COVID, the semi-finals for Ireland’s AIL will take place this weekend and the matchups look fantastic with Blackrock vs Old Belvedere and Railway Union vs UL Bohemian. Saracens took the top of the table in Allianz Premier 15s after Bristol lost to Gloucester-Hartpury and the Harlequins are in hot water over putting their women’s team in men’s kit and scheduling a hospitality lunch at the same time as the women’s kick-off. We close out the week with 9 features and 1 media. Read everthing at https://scrumhalfconnection.com/2022/01/14/womens-rugby-in-60-secs-jan-3-9/ and become a supporter of our site at https://www.patreon.com/yscrugby. tl;dr: Women's Rugby in 60 secs for Jan 3-9. We start with Spain's announcement of two "warm-up" matches before European Championships and we're looking ahead to Ireland's AIL semi-finals this weekend.