{"id":3604,"date":"2025-12-14T19:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:12:16","slug":"premiership-womens-rugby-aoife-wafer-makes-harlequins-debut-while-saracens-go-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3604","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby: Aoife Wafer makes Harlequins debut while Saracens go top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Twickenham Stoop, England full-back Ellie Kildunne scored the first of Quins&#8217; four tries after Scotland international Rhona Lloyd had given the visitors an early lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beth Wilcock, Sarah Parry and Connie Powell secured a try bonus point, although Shona Campbell&#8217;s late score set up a nervous finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/clyrre68vr3o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">announced in May<\/a> that 22-year-old back row Wafer, the 2025 Women&#8217;s Six Nations player of the tournament, would move to Harlequins from Leinster after the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, injuries sustained in Ireland&#8217;s quarter-final defeat by France in September meant she has had to wait until the seventh round of league fixtures to make her first appearance for her new club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She came off the bench to play the final 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Quins&#8217; win moved them above Trailfinders, for whom Vicky Laflin scored two first-half tries in their emphatic victory over Leicester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cj9yrjdpek1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Twickenham Stoop, England f&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}