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England males’s captain Jamie George joined the ladies’s staff in a coaching session to assist their hookers.
Purple Roses head coach John Mitchell was the England males’s defence coach from 2018 to 2021, with George his beginning hooker.
“After I acquired this position, Jamie mentioned, ‘In the event you ever want any assist with the ladies then hit me up’,” Mitchell mentioned.
“Jamie was the one that really inspired it for this example and we made it work.”
Bristol Bears hooker Lark Atkin-Davies began England’s opening Girls’s Six Nations victory over Italy and has retained her spot within the beginning XV to face Wales in Bristol on Saturday.
Harlequins’ Connie Powell has been Atkin-Davies’ deputy, with common beginning hooker Amy Cokayne again in coaching this week after harm.
Mitchell hopes that is the beginning of specialist senior males’s gamers serving to out the ladies’s staff after the profit his hookers gained from the session.
“We will have good cross-pollination between the specialist gamers,” Mitchell mentioned. “It’s not one thing we are going to try to do in abundance, however the nines would additionally profit from some kicking connections as properly.
“It’s a start line which is improbable.”
George, who helped England to a third-place end within the males’s Six Nations, has beforehand labored with Saracens hooker Might Campbell at membership degree.
Purple Roses captain Marlie Packer desires such hyperlinks to proceed at worldwide and membership degree, however solely when the time is correct.
“We do not wish to pressure it as they clearly have their very own programmes the identical as us and timing must be proper for each,” Packer mentioned.
“You don’t need somebody being there that does not wish to be there.”
