{"id":314678,"date":"2025-12-13T23:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314678\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:39:12","slug":"premiership-womens-rugby-live-harlequins-vs-sale-sharks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314678\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby LIVE: Harlequins vs Sale Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harlequins v Sale Sharks previewpublished at 17:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p>17:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Date: Saturday 13th December <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Venue: Twickenham Stoop<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watch live on BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website &amp; app from 17:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ellie Kildunne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e4528c50-2452-4c37-804c-1313eb17a0d0.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Look-up the word \u201caudacious\u201d and what do you find? It means<br \/>\nextremely bold, daring and fearless, a willingness to take surprisingly bold<br \/>\nrisks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you then search for Ellie Kildunne\u2019s try against Leicester Tigers<br \/>\nlast weekend you will have all the explanation you need. Harlequins were deep<br \/>\ninto their own half, when centre Sarah Parry booted the ball past the halfway<br \/>\nline which Kildunne chased down, got a toe to it and swan dived the ball down<br \/>\nin to take the win and finish the match in style. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aoife Wafer of Ireland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1752d4f9-cfec-4231-85de-3c456d80b42f.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"753\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was Harlequin&#8217;s first win in the PWR since their opening game against Loughborough Lightning. Quins have struggled against the top three clubs losing in consecutive weeks to Saracens, Gloucester-Hartpury and Exeter Chiefs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But a win this week could see them knocking on the door of the top three. Ireland back row <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c9w7vp2w79po\" class=\"ssrcss-13gq6qs-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aoife Wafer is set to make her debut for Harlequins<\/a> this Saturday, having not played since the World Cup due to injury. Her presence could be the spark in the ignition that Quins need to get back to winning ways.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sale Sharks head coach Tom Hudson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46ba77d9-b2dc-48c9-a732-aa311f90a0c7.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sale Sharks head coach Tom Hudson<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sale Sharks will be coming into the weekend refreshed after a bye week in the last round following a poor start to the season, having only won against league newcomers Leicester Tigers so far. Two defeats followed before they came close in a hard-fought match against Exeter Chiefs in round 5, starting the match off in the ascendancy with two tries, Chiefs came back to level things off, only for the Sharks to hit back and take the lead again, a Hope Rogers try for the Chiefs left both teams with a bonus point draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the halfway point in the season fast approaching it will be all to play for before heading into the festivities in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlequins v Sale Sharks previewpublished at 17:15 GMT 17:15 GMT Date: Saturday 13th December Venue: Twickenham Stoop Watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-314678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}