Summary

  • Click the 'Listen live' icon as Gloucester-Hartpury face Saracens

  • FT: Gloucester-Hartpury 40-14 Saracens

  • Gloucester-Hartpury have eight World Cup winners in the squad including Red Roses captain Zoe Stratford and Natasha 'Mo' Hunt

  • Saracens are also not short of World Cup stars with standout players Jess Breach, Marlie Packer and Kelsey Clifford

  • World Rugby Player of the Year Sophie de Goede also gets the nod in a formidable second row pairing with England star Rosie Galligan

  • Results from the opening weekend

Live Reporting

  1. Starting XV

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  2. Round OneBBC Sport/Getty Images

  3. Defending champions Gloucester-Hartpury's 'next act'

    Additional reporting by Paul Furley and Mike Henson.

    Sophie Hurcom
    BBC Sport England, West

    Natasha 'Mo' Hunt and Zoe Aldcroft of Gloucester-HartpuryGetty Images

    Natasha 'Mo' Hunt (left) and Zoe Aldcroft (right) of Gloucester-Hartpury

    For the past three seasons, Gloucester-Hartpury have been the all-conquering team in Premiership Women's Rugby (PWR).

    They secured their third consecutive league title in March but with head coach Sean Lynn having since left the club, for a team that calls itself 'the Circus' it is fitting that new head of rugby Dan Murphy has described the 2025-26 campaign as their "next act".

    "I've spoke quite openly about the next act and that's what we are," Murphy told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

    "The main event, the circus, has been amazing for a long time, but now we want to see who these new centre-stage athletes are."

    Murphy's appointment signals the start of a new era at the club which has been the standard bearer in recent seasons. But rather than overhauling what has gone before his approach is more to freshen up what is already there.

    For a start, he is far from new to the Gloucester-Hartpury set-up, having worked as the team's scrum coach under Lynn for the past four seasons. Lewis Arnold also remains as forwards coach with former England back Matt Banahan brought on to the staff.

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