Rampant Red Roses soar back to TikTok Women's Six Nations summit with emphatic win over Ireland

A dominant England side propelled themselves back to the top of the TikTok Women's Six Nations with a 69-0 bonus-point victory over Ireland in their penultimate match. Lark Davies opened the scoring two minutes into the match at Mattioli Woods Welford Road in front of a record-breaking Red Roses home crowd of 15,836.

Ad/> But the visitors held the hosts to just two tries in the first half, before Ireland were twice reduced to 14 women after the break with Dorothy Wall sent to the sin bin and Sene Naoupu shown red for head-on-head tackles. RugbyDupont reveals the one rugby prize still eluding him after steering France to Six Nations Grand Slam29/03/2022 AT 13:41 Hometown hero Emily Scarratt gave the Leicester faithful plenty to celebrate after leading the side out on her 100th cap, converting five tries on a sunny Sunday afternoon as England added nine more scores in the second half to set up a TikTok Women's Six Nations Grand Slam decider against France in Bayonne on Super Saturday next weekend.

Abbie Ward won an early lineout for the Red Roses and the rolling maul completed the job, Davies dotting down for her side's first try. Scarratt missed her attempt to add the extras, but the early score fuelled the crowd, who roared as Ward appeared to cross for another, only for referee Amber McLachlan to disallow the score for a forward pass.

The blustery conditions appeared to challenge both sides, Holly Aitchison's long pass failed to find Jess Breach and Simon Middleton's side missed two lineouts in quick succession. Still, the Red Roses showed their quality in the scrum and their determination soon told against an Ireland side who couldn't maintain possession and England took full advantage.