History of women's rugby will be lost without action says World Cup winner Taylor

Women's rugby history could be lost forever without better record-keeping, worries World Cup winner Tamara Taylor. The 40-year-old, now in her 17th year playing high-level club rugby, admitted she has no knowledge of the appearance milestones she could be passing along the way. Ad/> But Taylor's primary concern isn't personal recognition—it's the inadvertent erasure of those who came before.

RugbyHistory made as Wales Women announce the 12 players to go full-time14/01/2022 AT 14:09 «I've always been quite annoyed about the fact that in the women's club game we've never kept very good records,» the England and Saracens lock said. «There's lots of people and lots of different sources who are actually driving that now to get that information to the public domain, that's really cool. »I think my only worry when I look at it is, I don't want people to be forgotten.

«The girls that that were playing for England when I first started, because there's no decent records, it's almost like they were never there. »And I just think it's really important that we keep a hinge on what our history is, and those stories need to be told because the media weren't telling them at the time." Taylor first played rugby at Henley Rugby Club aged 15 before spending 14 years at top-flight side Thirsk, now based in Darlington as DMP Durham Sharks. After leaving the Sharks following demotion from her role as player-head coach, she recently returned to the North East on loan with the club struggling at the bottom of the Allianz Premier 15s — DMP have lost nine of their ten games this season by at least 59 points.