The six female nations 2025: Kildunne, Breach & Dow return while England changes 13 for Wales

Burton of Trailfinders impressed the premiership female rugby after appearing for the Sevens team of the GB team at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics.

“ABI (Burton) spoke to us a few weeks ago and I was swept away,” added Deacon.

“I knew his story but not some of the details and I felt inspired. What has passed is incredible. It is push and knows what he wants.

“He wants him so badly, you can see him day after day, and he deserves his possibility.”

Former England captain Marlie Packer is absent from the team of the day after starting in York, while the side of Loughborough Lightning Sadia Kabeya enters the initial XV.

Wales, who finished the bottom of the competition last year, Strictly lost in Edinburgh Against Scotland last weekend in what was the first game of Sean Lynn in office.

More than 18,000 tickets were sold for the England match, a record for a women’s sporting event in Wales.

“I think they are so important to grow the fan base,” Kabeya said to the BBC Sport on the device played at the mainty stadium.

“When we play Allianz Stadium, the quantity of fans we enter, friends and family, people who have never seen the rugby before, people who have just seen it on the train, is enormous and for girls playing in stadiums like this, it is what we need, it is what we want.”

Tatyana of Gloucester-Hartpury Heard and Megan Jones rekindle their central partnership, which started four out of five games to help red roses to win their third Grand Slam last year.

Scrum Half Natasha Hunt and Zoe Harrison form the combination of the middle defender, with half of the Flights of the Saracens the only change in the bottom line that Wales 46-10 defeated Last year in Bristol.

England is looking for a seventh title of the six nations in a row before a rugby world cup in the home that starts in August.