Scrum Queens' Open Letter on World Rugby Executive Vacancy | WRR 26

Welcome to the top women's rugby news for April 26-May 2! We’re starting with the open letter that Scrum Queens penned about the vacancy on the powerful World Rugby Executive Committee. World Rugby has the opportunity to choose one of two highly qualified female candidates and they could go even further by choosing one that supports an emerging nation. Both are in short supply on the committee. In XVs news, France hosted England in an exhibition match but it was cut short when the lights literally went out. The match was declared complete at 62 minutes with the win going to England 17-15. France has started an inquiry into the incident. In 7s news, the fallout over former head 7s coach John Tait continues as players took to social media to express their grievances with the outcome of the 3rd party investigations. Through that we learned that 37 athletes signed on to the complaint. Tait actually replied to one of the player’s on Twitter calling this “gaslighting”. That tweet has since been removed and his account is now private. We wrap up the week with lots of articles in our "other news" category, 11 player features and 8 media. Read the entire update at: https://scrumhalfconnection.com/2021/05/05/under-the-posts-womens-rugby-news-for-apr-26-may-2/ and become a supporter at https://www.patreon.com/yscrugby. tl;dr: Under the Posts - Women's Rugby News for Apr 26-May 2 looks at the upcoming World Rugby appointment to their Executive Committee, the exhibition match between France and England and the fallout in Canada continues.