AUCKLAND DELIVERED. It was the final the tournament needed, in front of a world-record crowd for a women’s game, beamed back to Blighty on free-to-air TV. After a year’s hiatus, the Women’s World Cup showed exactly what many insisted was coming.
And while that was going on, England were already selling tickets for the TikTok Six Nations. As Alex Teasdale, the RFU’s head of the women’s game, explains to us: “This was always going to be an important window for us.
“We’d been really fortunate to have tickets for thecollectively to ensure we weren’t all missing a moment. It didn’t matter which union you’re in or which country, everybody would have a view on what the next step out of the World Cup was and obviously that’s the Six Nations.”