{"id":3197,"date":"2024-08-15T01:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T01:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/premiership-womens-rugby-gloucester-hartpury-open-title-defence-against-leicester-tigers\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T01:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T01:26:47","slug":"premiership-womens-rugby-gloucester-hartpury-open-title-defence-against-leicester-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/premiership-womens-rugby-gloucester-hartpury-open-title-defence-against-leicester-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby: Gloucester-Hartpury open title defence against Leicester Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Gloucester-Hartpury will open their title defence at home to Leicester Tigers on the opening weekend of the Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby 2024-25 season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sean Lynn&#8217;s Gloucester side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cjjje65gvgpo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">beat Bristol Bears<\/a> in last season&#8217;s final to secure back-to-back Premiership triumphs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their bid for a third straight title starts on 6 October, but attack coach Andrew Ford said they are not &#8220;putting any pressure on ourselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are fully aware that the league is getting stronger which is exactly what we want,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three-time winners Saracens, who finished second in the table before losing to Bristol in the semi-finals, start their campaign against Trailfinders on 5 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol face Loughborough Lightning, while Harlequins take on Exeter Chiefs at Twickenham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sale Sharks have a bye in the opening round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c623z868785o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloucester-Hartpury will open their title defence at home to Leicester Tigers on the opening weekend of the Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby 2024-25 season. Sean Lynn&#8217;s Gloucester side beat Bristol Bears in last season&#8217;s final to secure back-to-back Premiership triumphs. Their bid for a third straight title starts on 6 October, but attack coach Andrew Ford said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}