Meg Jones and Marlie Packer each scored twice as world champions England ran in 10 tries in a 62-24 Ladies’s Six Nations demolition of Wales.
Maddie Feaunati, debutant Millie David, Amy Cokayne, Claudia Moloney-MacDonald, Jess Breach and Maud Muir additionally went over at Ashton Gate, with Keira Bevan, Kelsey Jones, Bethan Lewis and Seren Lockwood replying as John Mitchell’s table-toppers prolonged their 100 per cent file within the event with a 3rd win.
England roared out of the blocks and went forward with simply six minutes gone when Feaunati’s break took her aspect deep into the Welsh 22 and she or he finally went over from shut vary with Helena Rowland including the conversion.
David made her mark six minutes later, accumulating Holly Aitchison’s lengthy go earlier than racing away to the touch down, though the 20-year-old winger’s huge day would finish prematurely after she failed a head harm evaluation.
To their credit score, Wales stayed within the recreation and rapidly diminished the deficit when scrum-half Bevan picked up from the bottom of the ruck and went by a niche, changing her personal attempt to make it 12-7.
Nonetheless, flanker Packer was pushed over earlier than centre Jones scored a tremendous solo effort to say the bonus level with Rowland profitable from her first try, though Welsh hooker Jones additionally crossed from a well-worked line-out transfer.
Millie David was compelled off after failing a HIA moments after scoring a debut strive
However the Crimson Roses went in on the break with a 29-12 lead after Jones began and completed an exciting assault involving winger Moloney-MacDonald and Ellie Kildunne.
England picked up the place that they had left off when hooker Cokayne peeled off the again of a rolling maul to the touch down with Rowland including the 2 factors, and the guests’ hopes had been dealt an extra blow when full-back Kayleigh Powell was yellow-carded for a deliberate knock-on.
Moloney-MacDonald took full benefit nearly instantly with a tremendous end within the nook, and Breach scored her aspect’s eighth, transformed by fellow alternative Zoe Harrison earlier than Powell’s return.
Tries from Packer and Muir both aspect of Wales flanker Lewis’ effort – each of which had been transformed by Harrison – took England’s tally to 10, however Lockwood had the ultimate say to grab a bonus level for the guests with the clock within the purple.
Packer: Ashton Gate sell-out means all the things
Participant of the match – Marlie Packer – chatting with BBC:
“We’re really pleased. Wales have given us a tough game, they have improved massively. We’ve got a young squad who stepped up today, I’m really proud of the girls’ performance.
“It means all the things. Simply placing on this shirt is a large honour. Being in entrance of this crowd at Ashton Gate is unbelievable. Right now meant all the things.
“Selling out these stadiums, means everything to us. We want to put a game on for them and hope they enjoy our performances.
“We’re loving it each time we come into camp. We take pleasure in being with the Crimson Roses. It is a actually good surroundings and a pleasant place to be, which suggests we will put any such product on the pitch.”
‘We would have flopped 12 months ago’
Wales head coach Sean Lynn, speaking to BBC:
“That is what I requested the women for at this time, character.
“Before, 12 months ago, we would have flopped and fallen away, but to show that character to fight back with two tries and get that bonus point, I cannot fault character.
“We dissatisfied to have leaked 62 factors, however that may be a excellent Crimson Roses aspect who had been scientific.”
England’s 2026 Ladies’s Six Nations fixtures
- England 33-12 Eire (April 11) – Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
- Scotland 7-84 England (April 18) – Murrayfield, Edinburgh
- England 62-24 Wales (April 25) – Ashton Gate, Bristol
- vs Italy (Saturday Might 9) – Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi, Parma (3pm)
- vs France (Sunday Might 17) – Stade Atlantique, Bordeaux (5.45pm)
