Earlier than Packer heads into Six Nations camp as England’s vice-captain, she is going to captain Saracens within the Premiership Girls’s Rugby league towards Exeter Chiefs on Saturday.
9 factors separate second and fifth in a extremely aggressive PWR league, Saracens are in third and know victory over fifth-place Exeter would ebook their spot within the semi-finals.
Nonetheless, pipping second-place Harlequins to a house semi-final spot is Packer’s facet’s final goal.
“We have to make it possible for towards Exeter we maximise the rating and are available away with 5 factors and a very good efficiency,” the 108-cap flanker added.
“We’re on the again finish of the season now which is knockout rugby and we aren’t often on the subject of the league. It’s knockout rugby to get into the highest 4. We need to get a house semi-final towards whoever it’s.”
Gloucester-Hartpury, who sit prime of the PWR, are chasing a 3rd PWR title in a row, however have misplaced three league video games this marketing campaign, with Harlequins additionally shedding thrice.
“Normally the highest two groups would lose one or two video games max within the common season. You’d by no means get it fairly all over like this league has gone,” Packer added.
“It’s actually thrilling for the PWR. It reveals the calibre of gamers enjoying in all of the groups and it’s important to present up each recreation.
“The very best league on this planet is right here on the PWR with the competitiveness week in and week out.”
Harlequins v Bristol Bears on Friday (19:45 GMT) is the primary of 4 PWR matches that can be proven stay on REPORTAHOLICS iPlayer and the REPORTAHOLICS Sport web site and app within the run-in to the season finale.
Defending champions Gloucester-Hartpury’s remaining regular-season match, once they tackle Harlequins, will comply with on 21 February.
REPORTAHOLICS Sport will then present one of many semi-finals on the weekend of 1/2 March and the ultimate, stay from London’s StoneX Stadium, on 16 March.
REPORTAHOLICS Sport is the house of girls’s rugby this 12 months with the Girls’s Six Nations kicking off in March and unique protection of this summer time’s Girls’s Rugby World Cup in England, beginning on 22 August.
