00:00we always knew how great our game was we always knew how many people would love it how many people
00:05would feel a sense of belonging and feel a different identity and our women's game has
00:09a different identity but it was it was our little secret like if you was in you would know and now
00:14our secret's out but it's a wonderful thing so when I think back about how it how it was this
00:20weekend how it will be going into the quarters it's it just feels right like it doesn't feel
00:27like oh this is this is weird having so many people here oh this is weird how many so so many
00:32different types or seeing buggies and prams or seeing pregnant women like you know just lots of
00:37wheelchairs people at the games who maybe necessarily didn't realize that they could access games they
00:44didn't know they would like a rugby day out but it feels right and part of me is obviously it's
00:51obviously great that it's growing and growing but a part of you thinks it should have been like this
00:56the whole time but acknowledging it hasn't been and that for me that's one of the things rugby and
01:01this world cup in particular have been great at acknowledging that we haven't always got it right
01:06in the past and it's not always maybe we've done the best and so because we acknowledge that there's
01:11also still so much more work to do then we can move on like we're certainly not guilty of pretending
01:17everything's good and gravy and now we're getting you know selling out stadiums week on week
01:23this isn't the end and for me that's the exciting bit it's a constant challenge and
01:27in sport whether you're playing on the field or any administrators you know working in the media
01:33you take it as a challenge like right the bar's been set how are we going to up it and i've no doubt
01:39the bar will be continued to be pushed and pushed and you know maybe even this week there's loads of
01:43things happening because of how successful brighton was to make bristol and exeter this weekend at the
01:49quarters even bigger
01:50even bigger
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