“Ireland want to shake England up a bit,” is the message from the back-row Aoife Wafer before the two teams clash in the Women’s Six Nations on Saturday. Wafer lays down the gauntlet to the defending champions on a video call, which she joins fresh from training in full kit, with her leg still strapped with tape.
Belief and confidence emanate through the laptop screen as she speaks about the possibility of ending England’s 31-game dominance in the tournament in Cork. “We want to show them that Ireland are not just there to sit down, we want to put it up to them,” the 22-year-old says. “We will have parts of our game we really want to go after and we think will work and maybe shock the English a little bit. We are all raring to go.”
