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The Rugby Football Union will meet in January to discuss how the franchises for the next three-year cycle, , will be determined. However, the league is not without its problems, most notably with DMP Durham Sharks still winless this season. Welsh Rugby Union performance director Nigel Walker confirmed last November that the RFU had rejected the idea of a Welsh side entering the Premier 15s league, however further announcements about women's club rugby in Wales are expected.

The women's Premiership in Scotland finally resumed in , although the six-team league still has a broad gap to close if it hopes to attract Scotland's best talent away from the Premier 15s. As for Ireland, let's move onto the next section. The 62 Irish players who wrote a letter of no-confidence to their government last December epitomised the trend of many women in rugby who are increasingly confident about using their voices to effect change.

The full publication of two reviews into women's rugby in Ireland are hotly anticipated - the first into the failure to qualify for the World Cup is expected in January, the second wider review should be published before the spring.

The WRU has apologised and will announce which players have secured their first professional and semi-professional contracts at the start of January. Other voices of influence include former England full-back Danielle Waterman, who was named the chief executive of new player union the Women's Rugby Association.

England and Harlequins prop Vickii Cornborough became the first woman elected vice-chair of the Rugby Players Association. England forward Poppy Cleall's campaign around women's rugby boots showed the influence players now have and their intention not to sit quietly when naivety, ignorance or misunderstanding lies in their path. Increasingly stories around women's kit size, shape or general lack of it continue to make headlines and the technology and awareness around it could explode in the build-up to the World Cup.

However the greatest and most important changes in could come around the research into better understanding of how women suffer and recover from concussion. World Rugby launched a Women's Player Welfare Steering Group in with goals to "fill research gaps" and improve "injury surveillance". Better protecting women on the rugby field would be the best outcome of all in Russell Kane and guests judge whether the sensational pop artist should now be known as evil or genius The fifteen remaining candidates are sinking their teeth into the electric toothbrush market Get latest scores and headlines sent straight to your phone, sign-up to our newsletter and learn where to find us on online.

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It will be the 17th Rugby League World Cup, which was first held in France in and again in France bid for the event in July after initial plans for the tournament to be held in North America were scrapped.

Financial concerns prevented the World Cup being hosted in North America for the first time, after it was provisionally awarded the tournament in It will be the third major sports event to be held in France in consecutive years, following rugby union's World Cup in and the Olympics in Paris in Russell Kane and guests judge whether the sensational pop artist should now be known as evil or genius The fifteen remaining candidates are sinking their teeth into the electric toothbrush market Analysis and opinion from the BBC's rugby league correspondent.

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