Rosie Galligan has revealed that England plan to carry a “pamper evening” to deliver the squad nearer collectively forward of Saturday’s World Cup semifinal towards France at Ashton Gate.
The Purple Roses enter ‘Le Crunch’ as red-hot favourites however, conscious of the “battle” to return, they are going to change off from rugby throughout a night of self-indulgence at their staff lodge in Bristol.
“We’re really having a pamper evening on Wednesday the place we’re all bringing our personal face masks and carrying pyjamas all the way down to our staff room to look at a movie collectively,” Galligan stated.
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“It is these moments that actually bond us and produce us collectively in order that after we’re on the sector, we’re in a battle collectively.”
England have received their final 18 matches towards France courting again to 2018, however of their final two conferences on residence soil they simply held off mighty comebacks from their Six Nations rivals.
They received 38-33 in 2023 and 43-42 in 2025, however on each events they crumbled having constructed spectacular leads.
“Le Crunch is one of the best and it is in all probability related for the French. While you go away, that is when it is actually particular,” second-row Galligan stated.
“It is at all times fairly a hostile surroundings after we go over to France and likewise when the French come right here. It appears to be that they arrive alive and so they at all times need to beat us on residence soil.
“It is simply one other rugby sport, however that French-English rivalry is one thing you do not take with no consideration.”
