Women’s AIL: Week 7 Preview.

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The week I have been waiting for since the start of the season is finally here as my favourite team, Cooke Women RFC, play my adopted team Railway Union in the first back to back match as the teams reach the midpoint of the league campaign.

The fixture has added interest from the Ulster perspective as it features the experienced Ulster and Ireland players Larissa Muldoon and Nikki Caughey, at Railway Union, directly up against their Ulster positional competition Vicky Irwin and Brittany Hogan, at Cooke.

However the match is likely to be decided up front and here the battle between Irish props, Lindsay Peat and Ilse van Staden, is likely to be a titanic clash, both in the tight and the loose. These two talismanic players have been the form forwards in the league this season (alongside UL Bohemian’s Anna Caplice) and it’s a clash I’m looking forward to immensely.

In fact looking down the two . . .

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