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Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: poorfour
Date: April 3, 2025, 7:16 am
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Updated for the senior development player resignings
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Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: poorfour
Date: April 14, 2025, 7:27 am
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Updated for the latest batch of signings
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Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: poorfour
Date: May 2, 2025, 7:54 am
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Laura Delgado, Beth Wilcock and - most importantly - Claudia
Pena have all re-signed for next season
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Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: FatQuin
Date: May 2, 2025, 10:43 am
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I hope we have Pena signed on for a very long contract.
Outstanding player.
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Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: poorfour
Date: May 2, 2025, 11:00 am
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> I hope we have Pena signed on for a very long contract.
Outstanding player.
>
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I think it's just a year at a time for her (and for most of the
international players) - I think a lot of them would like to
play in a league in their home nation if one existed. But I hope
Spain take a while to get theirs going, because she has lit up
the pitch with her play this season.
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Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: Brown Bottle
Date: May 2, 2025, 12:28 pm
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--- Quote from: poorfour link ---
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> I think it's just a year at a time for her (and for most of
the international players) - I think a lot of them would like to
play in a league in their home nation if one existed. But I hope
Spain take a while to get theirs going, because she has lit up
the pitch with her play this season.
>
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I think you'll be ok. Spain have a league setup but I don't
think even their national women's team is professional.
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Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: poorfour
Date: May 6, 2025, 6:47 am
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Babalwa Latsha confirmed as leaving, much to the consternation
of Ms Poorfour Maj, who has met her a couple of times and really
likes her.
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Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: poorfour
Date: May 6, 2025, 3:42 pm
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Updated for the leavers. I will tidy it up for next season once
we think there are no more announcements to come
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Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: poorfour
Date: May 19, 2025, 2:38 pm
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Now that offy have provided a confirmed list of leavers, I have
updated the squad list and tidied it up. The list of leavers -
as far as I can tell - is as follows. Most of them were listed
in the news article on 6 May, but it also looked like Nic
Haynes, who joined from Sarries ahead of the season, left to go
back to Sarries mid-season without any fanfare. Anyway, she’s
not listed on offy.
Confirmed Leavers 2024/25
- Emma Blackburn* (Prop) - Leaving
- Babalwa Latsha (Prop, South Africa) - Leaving
- Nic Haynes (Hooker, England) - Left to return to Saracens
- Kaitlan Leaney (Australia, Lock) - Leaving
- Jemima Moss (Lock, Leicester) - Leaving
- Chloe Benjamin (Flanker, CoE)* - Leaving
- Lucy Heryet (Flanker, England U20s, CoE) - Leaving
- Lauren Poole (Flanker) - Leaving
- Harriet Millar-Mills (No 8, England) RETIRED 2025
- Maddy Grant (Back row, Canada) - injury cover until the end of
24/25 for Sara Svoboda - Leaving
- Isa Prins (Back row, Netherlands) - injury cover until the end
of 24/25 - Leaving
- Florence Neller (Scrum half, CoE)* - Leaving
- Freya Bell (Fly Half, CoE)* - Leaving
- Rebecca Grogut (Wing, CoE)* - Leaving
- Kirsty Hillier (Wing, CoE) - Leaving
HTML https://www.quins.co.uk/article/harlequins-women-confirm-departing-players
15 confirmed leavers is lower than last season, especially
considering there’s only one retirement and there are also a
couple of short term signings.
What surprised me at first was how many of the players who are
leaving are fairly recently signed development players, with 6
of them having come through the Centre of Excellence pathway.
However, I suspect that will be a feature of the women’s game
until it goes fully professional. The women’s team (as far as I
know) doesn’t have the capacity to pay a large roster of academy
players. We should get used to a high turnover of development
players who don’t quite make it.
Overall, it’s still a strong looking squad. At full strength, a
match day XXIII would probably have 16 or 17 internationals. It
looks light at fly half with only 2 listed (albeit good ones),
so maybe there will be another signing or promotion to come.
I think the key thing for Quins next season will be to keep the
back row fit. Losing all three of Wythe, Callendar and Konkel
for much of the run-in really hurt Quins’ ability to get go
forward - with the focus on external recruitment being on the
second row, we may be looking to carry more through the locks.
#Post#: 138441--------------------------------------------------
Re: Quins Women Signings and Departures
DIR By: poorfour
Date: May 19, 2025, 2:46 pm
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I don’t know many of the new players, but Ms Poorfour Maj has
played with Solana Shaw de Leon and she is very quick.
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