Welcome to the top women's rugby news for Mar 15-21! We’re starting with the announcement from World Rugby of a new global women’s competition kicking off in 2023. The WXV competition will have sixteen teams in three tiers playing a minimum of six tests throughout the year. This is hugely important as some teams play one or two tests annually while others are playing more than twelve.

On the heels of this announcement came an article from Spain's head coach who didn't hold back on alleging that World Rugby & Ireland conveniently schemed to push their Rugby World Cup Qualifying match. Sure it's a pandemic but if Ireland can play in the Six Nations...why can't they do a qualifying match? What's the deal there?

In domestic competitions, the Saracens and Harlequins have punched their ticket to the Allianz Premier 15s semi-finals and Spain's Iberdrola has three of four teams set in their playoffs.

We close out the week with a few pieces in our "Other News" category as well as 11 player features and 3 media.

Read the entire update: https://scrumhalfconnection.com/2021/03/25/under-the-posts-womens-rugby-news-for-mar-15-21/.