Women’s Six Nations 2026: ‘Emotional’ Erin King ready for Ireland return

Women’s Six Nations 2026: ‘Emotional’ Erin King ready for Ireland return

The 22-year-old begins at flanker towards England, who need to win an eighth Six Nations in a row.

The sport on the Allianz Stadium is about to be performed in entrance of a file crowd of 75,000 as England play their first sport since profitable the World Cup.

The Red Roses recorded their highest ever factors win over Ireland with an 88-10 victory the final time the perimeters met on the Allianz Stadium in 2024, however King believes Ireland have taken learnings from that have and won’t be overawed by the event.

“It’s lovely walking out, we will have a few laughs and smiles on our faces, it’s a beautiful stadium and we can’t wait to get going,” she added.

“A lot of people talk about the noise in here some of the girls have played prem [Premiership Women’s Rugby] games in here, Aoife Wafer has talked about it and even with 40,000 in the stadium you can’t hear yourself, so we’re really excited and can’t wait to hear the sound of the stadium.

“We’ve talked about how huge the event goes to be, however for us we’re simply specializing in ourselves and the match and the job at hand.

“We want to enjoy it, it’s an amazing experience and it’s great we’re hopefully selling out stadiums but at the end of the day, we’re here to do a job and that’s what we’re focusing on.”

After taking over England, Ireland have a house sport towards Italy in Galway earlier than they journey to tackle France in spherical three.

Scott Bemand’s facet spherical off the championship with back-to-back dwelling video games in Belfast and Dublin towards Wales and Scotland.

While they’re enormous underdogs to be the facet to finish England’s 34-game unbeaten run, King is delighted they’ve the prospect to spring an upset within the first sport.

“It’s nice to have a challenge first. We’ve done things in the past people didn’t think we could do and for me personally, I’m embracing the challenge and we’ve spoken about that as a team and we’re excited to take it on.”

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