Revamped Six Nations in April & Asia Rugby Cancellations | WRR 17

Welcome to the top women's rugby stories for Feb 1-14, we’re covering two weeks and it begins with a revamped Six Nations kicking off in April. We also received final dates for the European Championships, and Asia Rugby has canceled their championship and qualifier due to COVID-19 travel & quarantine restrictions. So two steps forward and one step back for the 2021 Rugby Cup. In 7s news, Madrid 7s announces back-to-back tournaments Feb 20-21 & Feb 27-28 and it’s the first 7s of the year ahead of the Olympics. Rugby Canada has shuffled their 7s coaching staff and appointed an independent investigator to review a complaint against former head coach John Tait. Back to XVs news, USA has announced their World Cup Performance squad as well as assembly dates, we review Round 11 & 12 of Allianz Premier 15s (upsets galore!), the WPL has canceled their spring season, Zimbabwe announced a mentoring program as well as aspirations around players under contract and training at a high performance center. We wrap it all up with 16 player features and 10 media. Read the entire update at https://scrumhalfconnection.com/2021/02/24/under-the-posts-womens-rugby-news-for-feb-1-14/.