{"id":346132,"date":"2025-12-13T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346132\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:18:08","slug":"premiership-womens-rugby-aoife-wafer-makes-harlequins-debut-while-saracens-go-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346132\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby: Aoife Wafer makes Harlequins debut while Saracens go top"},"content":{"rendered":"<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.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/clyrre68vr3o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 up to fourth in the table, back above Trailfinders, for whom Vicky Laflin scored two first-half tries in their emphatic victory over Leicester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Bears host Loughborough Lightning on Sunday (15:00 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Twickenham Stoop, England full-back Ellie Kildunne scored the first of Quins&#8217; four tries after Scotland international Rhona&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-346132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}