Women's Six Nations looks to move in rugby calendar

The Six Nations schedule is set for a radical overhaul according to a report in the Guardian. The organisers are considering creating a new window for the women’s competition to avoid clashing with the men’s tournament, moving it away from the traditional February-March slot in an effort to increase exposure.

There was widespread criticism of the schedule for this year’s tournament from, among others, the England fly-half Katy Daley-Mclean, with a number of the matches shoehorned into lunchtime kick-offs, often overlapping each other.

While there has been problems with women’s matches staged on the same day as the men’s - often in different cities – ensuring supporters are not able to attend both.

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