RFU director of performance rugby Conor O’Shea has appealed for more countries to professionalise their women’s set-ups.
O’Shea said there was a push to “commercialise the game both internationally and domestically” but he stressed: “We need the other countries to professionalise more.
“You can’t work to the lowest common denominator, but you can’t leave it behind either. We might be ahead [in England] but that’s not good enough and we need to bring them along with us.”
He added that plans for the evolution of the women’s Premier 15s competition would be revealed in the new year.
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