‘Who knows if I would be sitting here going for the next one if I had reached that Rugby World Cup,” says the Red Roses scrum-half Natasha “Mo” Hunt on her bid to be part of England’s squad to compete in a home World Cup in 2025 after the heartbreak of missing out in 2022.
Hunt is a central player to John Mitchell’s squad with less than a year to go until the tournament kicks off on 22 August. England have only two competitions until the big event: the WXV 1 this month and the Women’s Six Nations. The Red Roses face two of their biggest rivals to start the countdown with friendlies against France being played on Saturday and New Zealand the following week.
