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Jax and Gabby are only chatting with Canada's Captain and 2025's World Rugby Player of the Year Sophie De Goede. We packed in as much as we could this week obviously beginning with those 2 massive wins on home soil. Sophie opened up about all she has been through over the past 2 years to be able to put in such a confident, comfortable, joyous performance in Ottawa. 

Does the PWR have too many Canadian players? What is it like kicking with a 4.5 ball? How did the new Rugby Bricks kicking Tee collaboration come about? How was it learning new strategies and integrating the rookies into the team at the beginning of a new cycle? What would Gabby and Sophie do with the new government funding if they were CEO's for a day?  What was the meaning behind the design on Gabby's Aptoella body armour? We aren't joking when we say we packed a lot in this week. 

We end the show with a beautiful tribute to Paige Farries as she announced her retirement from the sport at the Ottawa game. 

Enjoy! 

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On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby player Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams weekly as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best.

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It is a bumper episode this week as Canada's WXV campaign has finished with not 1 but 2 incredible home wins against England. Jax and Gabby are joined to discuss all the goings on by the multi talented Laetitia Royer as the 3 of them look back over the autumn fixtures. 

We discuss the 4.5 ball, the lack of TMO, how the team stayed focused and consistent on their goal of beating England twice as what 5% more meant to the Canadian Rugby team. 

Laetitia also opened up about some of her creative pursuits as well as what it is like to be a French speaker on a bi-lingual professional sports team. 

We end this week's show by giving Props to the best prop in the game right now, DaLeaka Menin who has just been named in the nominees for World Player of the Year. 

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On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby player Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams weekly as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best.

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***This is the first time we have recorded on location not in a studio and as you can hear from the quality -  we didn't get it right. However, the show content was so good we had to get it out to you all. Thank you for your understanding - we will learn from this I promise*** 

Jax and Gabby are back, and this week joined by match winning try scorer Shoshanah Seumanutafa and forward Julia Omokhuale to discuss Canada's historic win over the Red Roses in front of a record breaking 18,600 person crowd. 

There was so much to cover but we give you all the insights these incredible players had. 

Finally, we look ahead to the final match in the series against England. 

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On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby player Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams weekly as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best.

Jax and Gabby are joined this week by the wonderful Alysha Corrigan to discuss the match against the Red Roses THIS WEEK in Toronto. Friday's match will be the first time Alysha has played for Canada's 15s team since the world cup and we discuss the fomo of being sent home from tour, the freshness she is bringing back to the squad and how her family helped her get back to match fitness with some unique training. 

Saracen's teammates Gabby and Alysha talk about winning the PWR together last season, as well as some of the teams traditions. 

And we finally touch on the reactions to the All Heart documentary that was released a week ago. 

On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby player Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams weekly as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best.

***BONUS EPISODE ***

Jax and Gabby are so excited to chat with Director Kat Jayme this week , as she joins us to discuss the documentary All Heart: A Rugby Story. 

Kat and her team were on tour with Rugby Canada during their history making campaign during the 2025 World Cup, and over 4 episodes, they highlight the culmination of years of sacrifice, hard work, and preparation by the women’s national team. 

As Gabby is featured in the doc, it was great to get the perspectives from both sides of the camera. 

Everyone needs to go and watch this doc, and we love we could chat with Kat for release day. The show will be aired on CRAVE in Canada and is released Friday October 9th. 

On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby player Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams weekly as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best.

Rugby Canada's Director of women's rugby and XV's Head Coach, Kevin Rouet, joins Jax and Gabby on the show this week. 

We discuss the WXV tournament, Canada's goal of beating the Red Roses this fall and how he is integrating younger players into the system so the team has all the experience they need come Australia 2029. 

Kevin is honest around Canada's unique situation - the team is in the top 3 in the world but the team cannot pay them to  be fully professional. 

We talk about the One Squad mentality, how Kevin would love to see a professional arm of the game grow in Canada and what he has learned from coaching the PWR. 

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On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby player Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams weekly as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best.

Jax and Gabby are joined this week by Olympic and World Cup silver medalist, Fancy Bermudez. 

The rovers chat about the France loss at the weekend, how the team mentally supports each other through these moments and what they need to improve on for the matches against England in Ontario. 

Fancy and Gabby also open up about the selection process and how to stay positive when they aren't on the team sheet for an upcoming fixture. 

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On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby player Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams weekly as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best.

Jax and Gabby are back, and this week joined by WXV player of the match, Canadian prop, DaLeaka Menin. 

After experiencing one of the most epic test matches in the women's game (with England and Canada drawing 26-26) we take some time getting our heads around what happened at the weekend. 

DaLeaka and Gabby also bring some incredibly thorough insights from the forward pack, dissecting the difference between tighthead and loosehead prop (DaLeaka played both positions at the weekend) and how the Canadian pack trains.

Finally, we look ahead to the France match, and discuss different coaching styles. 

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On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby player Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams weekly as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best.

On the second part of this week's episode we are joined by Asia Hogan-Rochester - Olympic and world cup silver medalist and outstanding winger on the Canada team. 

We talk preseason training, prepping for testing, being a student athlete and what it is like playing for a team abroad. 

Gabby and Asia discuss the world cup and what they are going to take into this week's game against England in WXV. 

This is part 2 of our weekly episode - our ability with technology makes a 2 part episode much more fun for your eyes and ears. 

Show labeled explicit for a couple of accidental swears - we will work on that I promise! 

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On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby's Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams weekly as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best. 

Jax and Gabby are  back chatting about Canada's 64-26 win over Scotland at the weekend. 

We talk debuts, team traditions, scoring tries for your country and what it is like to get a yellow card. 

A repeat of the rugby world cup final is on the horizon this weekend and Gabby discusses how training changes and what it is like to get hyped for a match against the current number 1 team in the world. 

Please note this is part 1 of a 2 part episode - our ability with technology makes a 2 part episode much more fun for your eyes and ears. 

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On Rugby Rovers, join Canadian rugby's Gabby Senft, and sports fan Jax Williams, as they take you behind the scenes of Canada's women's 15s team, giving fans a glimpse behind the curtain as to what it takes to be the best. 

Jax Williams and Gabby Senft are back discussing all the happenings in the Canadian team over the last week.  This week we are joined by fly half Taylor Perry. 

We discuss WXV training camp, scrimmaging against the Irish women, roommates and tour life. 

We also take our time unpacking the 4.5 ball debate - hear Gabby and Taylor's thoughts on the changing ball size and how it has been implemented over the past year. 

Finally, we focus on the upcoming Scotland test match which takes place Saturday Sept 12th at The Hive in Scotland. 

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This week, Jax and Gabby are joined this week by Canada sevens legend and double Olympic medalist Charity Williams. Charity shares big news and talks about how she feels switching from 7's to 15's.

We talk about the one squad mentality, what it is like to be on long tours and what item Gabby can't travel without. 

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Welcome to the first episode of Rugby Rovers. Come join Jax and Gabby as they talk all things rugby - focusing on the upcoming WXV series with the Canadian 15s women's team. 

On our first episode we discuss our reasons for the show. Why Rugby Rovers? Why now? Why us? 

Join us weekly as we take you behind the scenes of team Canada's WXV tour this fall. 

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Episode 1 drops Thursday Sept 3rd - Get ready for some fun ahead