Erin King talks women's rugby
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The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance. Now, fresh from their Six Nations win against Wales at the weekend, I'm joined by the captain of the Ireland women's Six Nations team, Erin King. Hello.
Hi there, how are you?
I'm delighted to have you here.
Nice to meet you.
Great weekend.
Yeah, no, it was a great weekend off in Belfast.
What was the significance of Ireland's recent Six Nations win?
We played Wales and we're really looking to get three home wins. So to get the second home win was, yeah, we're delighted.
And how are you feeling after the game? Physically okay?
Yeah, physically okay. The body's okay. All the girls came out of it pretty unscathed. So yeah, it was a really positive win.
Does everyone have to do an assessment of how you're feeling after a game like that?
Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, physically and mentally, how is everyone? We all check in with each other and the medics all check in with us. Yeah, we're really well looked after.
I mean, going into that game, Ireland was ranked a good bit higher than Wales. So people like me would have said, oh, sure, we're bound to win this. I would assume you never go in feeling like that, right?
No, to be honest, like you never know what's going to happen and what other teams are working on. And we place a big emphasis on ourselves and that's the main focus. But yeah, Wales had been going pretty well during the Six Nations. You know, we do a lot of analysts. We analyse everything that they do. And yeah, to be fair to them, they really brought it to us in that first half. It was a bit of a challenge to get it over the line. But yeah, it was a great game.
You got there in the end. So then this weekend at Scotland, isn't it? Here in Dublin at the Aviva.
Yeah, Scotland in the Aviva and it's our first standalone game in the Aviva Stadium, which is really exciting. We've seen the lads play there for years and finally it's our turn to play there. So, yeah, we sold like 27,000 tickets as well, which is record breaking for us. You know, the biggest crowd that we've ever gotten in Ireland.
But you want more.
Yeah, we want more. We want to keep selling them.
How do players assess their physical and mental state after a game?
Does that make a big difference to you, having a huge home crowd in the stadium?
Yeah, like 100 percent. Like it's why we do it. We talk about what we call our green wave a lot, which is all the people that have been on our journey and helped us with our journey and all our fans that support us and our families and anyone who wore the green jersey before us. So, yeah, it's great to see and feel that support. We've come a long way from, you know, even just five years ago, we were playing in England. you know, tiny stadiums and we get a couple thousand people. So to see women's rugby going in the trajectory it's going is so positive and really exciting.
Okay, now I want to talk a little bit about you and about your background because you were born in Australia, isn't that right?
Yeah, yeah.
And then you moved around quite a bit.
What challenges did Ireland face against Wales during the match?
Yeah, moved all over, lived in the Middle East for a while and then came to Ireland when I was 12.
When you were 12? Yeah. So the Irish is your maternal... My grandad, yeah. Maternal grandad. Yeah. So where did you come to live when you moved here when you were 12?
I came to Blessington in Wicklow. Yeah, beautiful Blessington Lakes and everything. And yeah, settled in. I've always played rugby, so joined Nace Rugby Club straight away. And that's kind of been my kind of continuous factor through my whole life.
Yeah, I saw you said that, which is really interesting because you move around a lot, which is unsettling for a child. But rugby was always there for you.
Yeah, always how I found my friends and always fit right into wherever I was all over the world playing rugby.
So the injury then, talk to me about the injury. When was that? Was it more than a year ago now?
Yeah, it was about a year ago in our Six Nations last year. I played rugby sevens for years and I got to go to the Olympics in 2024 and was having a great year, started playing 15s and then was playing my first Six Nations. And unfortunately, in our third game against England, I had a really big, serious knee injury and it was...
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:26
2
What was the significance of Ireland's recent Six Nations win?
0:26–1:57
3
How do players assess their physical and mental state after a game?
1:57–2:45
4
What challenges did Ireland face against Wales during the match?
2:45–4:46
5
What does Erin King think about the upcoming game against Scotland?
4:46–7:01
6
How has women's rugby evolved in recent years?
7:01–8:43