Packer only scrum-half among new RFU contracts

The Rugby Soccer Union has awarded contracts to 32 England gamers over the following three seasons.

The contracts – of various lengths – are understood to incorporate a big pay rise.

New head coach John Mitchell, who will take up his function after the lads’s World Cup ends on 28 October, was concerned within the choice course of.

Worcester Warriors wing Lydia Thompson, who was despatched off in England’s World Cup final defeat by New Zealand in 2022, misses out on a contract.

Hunt co-captained Gloucester-Hartpury to the Premier 15s title final season and was named participant of the yr.

The contracts consists of two gamers who will shortly go on maternity go away. Two additional contracts will likely be introduced this yr.

England beat France to seal a Six Nations Grand Slam in entrance of a document ladies’s crowd of 58,498 at Twickenham in April.

In June the RFU supplied gamers new contracts with “significant enhancements”.

Contracted gamers

Holly Aitchison (Bristol Bears), Zoe Aldcroft (Gloucester-Hartpury), Sarah Beckett (Gloucester-Hartpury), Sarah Bern (Bristol Bears), Hannah Botterman (Bristol Bears), Jess Breach (Saracens), Mackenzie Carson (TBC) , Poppy Cleall (Saracens), Kelsey Clifford (Saracens), Amy Cokayne (Leicester Tigers), Vickii Cornborough (Harlequins), Lark Davies (Bristol Bears), Abby Dow (Ealing Trailfinders), Rosie Galligan (Saracens), Zoe Harrison (Saracens), Tatyana Heard (Gloucester-Hartpury), Megan Jones (Leicester Tigers), Sadia Kabeya (Loughborough), Ellie Kildunne (Harlequins), Alex Matthews (Gloucester-Hartpury), Claudia MacDonald (Exeter), Maud Muir (Gloucester-Hartpury), Cath O’Donnell (Loughborough), Morwenna Talling (Sale Sharks), Lucy Packer (Harlequins), Marlie Packer (Saracens), Connie Powell (Harlequins), Amber Reed (Bristol Bears), Helena Rowland (Loughborough), Emily Scarratt (Loughborough), Emma Sing (Gloucester-Hartpury), Abbie Ward (Bristol Bears).