Kildunne 'open to anything' as R360 rumours grow

England's world champion full-back Ellie Kildunne said she is "open to anything" erstwhile questioned whether she would beryllium progressive successful nan projected caller R360 league.

"It doesn't mean that I'd return it, but I'd for illustration to understand nan convention a small spot much to spot if that's an opportunity that I'd for illustration to take," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

The 26-year-old was speaking astatine Bracknell Rugby Club to thief motorboat nan Rugby Football Union's Rugby Fest weekend.

The inaugural is aimed astatine ensuring nan bequest of England's Women's Rugby World Cup win.

As nan Red Roses sojourn clubs up and down nan country, rumours surrounding nan early of nan nine crippled successful men's and women's rugby garbage to spell away, pinch the R360 breakaway convention consistently successful nan headlines.

The Daily Telegraph reported connected Thursday that Kildunne is simply a apical target for R360, and that it had been told "a important number" of her England team-mates have already signed pre-contract agreements to subordinate R360., external

Kildunne is presently contracted to Premiership Women's Rugby broadside Harlequins, who unfastened nan convention play connected Friday, 24 October against Loughborough Lightening astatine nan Twickenham Stoop.

"I'm conscionable focused connected nan Harlequins play that I've got, and you cognize this week has been perfectly crazy, truthful I can't look excessively acold up - I don't moreover cognize what I'm having for meal tonight," added Kildunne.

"There's going to beryllium tons of finance into nan crippled now, tons of changes that group will spot and I deliberation that's nan guidance that rugby needs to go.

"We've made thing hap and that's going to travel pinch talking points and debates.

"This convention (R360) is still thing we don't cognize excessively overmuch about."

Kildunne was a instrumentality favourite passim nan World Cup and scored important tries for England successful some nan semi-final triumph complete France and last occurrence against Canada.

And her fame seems to person grown since.

"The binman stopped maine successful nan thoroughfare erstwhile I went down to my car, to congratulate me. And nan postman erstwhile he knocked connected nan doorway was like, 'Oh, it's you'," she said

"I deliberation arsenic a whole, women's rugby really now has a level that's been accelerated, and we want to usage that level to thrust younger girls into nan sport, and to support connected pushing nan magnitude of group that are progressive successful women's rugby.

"We want to enactment successful touch pinch nan adjacent procreation and show that we're not excessively acold away. We are domiciled models and you tin aspire to beryllium america - and you've sewage to spot it to judge it."