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No Tears on the Field
Film (Trailer) – 2025
Three things that you need to play; it's safety, it's technique, and it's grunt. And I've got all of them!
– Kate Thomson, Southern RC player at the start of this trailer
As a kid I would make up the numbers in my brother’s rugby team during training nights. But when it came to the real deal, Saturday’s game - I wasn’t allowed to play. Girls didn’t play rugby. It has been a bugbear for me. Simply, why shouldn’t girls play rugby?
– Filmmaker Lisa Burd in a press release for the film, Scoop website, 17 December 2025
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