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“We want all our fixtures to be here but we understand that it might not be feasible,” said Botterman. “There’s a certain number of tickets we have to sell to make it worth it for fans to come here. After today’s success, maybe we can get two big crowds in for next year’s Six Nations, building up to the World Cup until we can sell it out.” Given the trajectory where the women’s game is heading, you wouldn’t bet against her.
Match details
Scores 5-0 Dow try, 10-0 M Packer try, 12-0 Rowland con, 17-0 Matthews try, 19-0 Rowland con, 26-0 penalty try, 31-0 Aldcroft try, 33-0 Rowland con, 33-5 Boulard try, 33-7 Tremouliere con, 33-12 Vernier try, 33-14 Tremouliere con, 38-14 Davies try, 38-19 Escudero try, 38-21 Tremouliere con, 38-26 Gros try, 38-33 Banet try.
England E Kildunne; A Dow, H Rowland, T Heard (A Reed 67), C Macdonald (J Breasch 50), H Aitchison, L Packer (N Hunt 77); H Botterman (M Carson 50), L Davies (C Powell 67), S Bern (M Muir 67), Z Aldcroft, S Beckett, S Kabeya (M Talling 75), M Packer, A Matthews.
France E Boulard (C Arbez 69), C Banet, M Menager (M Filopon 71), G Vernier, M Llorens; J Tremouliere, P Bourdon (A Chambon 69); Y Brosseau (A Mwayembe 60), A Sochat, R Bernadou (A Khalfaoui 46), M Feleu, A Forlani (R Menager 46), A Berthoumieu (E Gros 66), G Hermet, C Escudero.
Replacements not used E Riffoneau. Sin Bin Tremouliere, Bernadou.
Referee Aimee Barrett-Theron (South Africa)
Attendance 58,498
England 38 France 33: as it happened
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