World Cup Winner Bern Sets 'bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger' Goals

Bigger, better, faster, stronger.

It has only been 5 weeks since England lifted nan World Cup trophy and prop Sarah Bern is already reasoning astir really she tin amended now she has returned to her nine Bristol.

Following specified a monolithic profession precocious astatine Twickenham, Bern mightiness beryllium forgiven for needing aliases wanting much clip to find caller information aliases conscionable revelling successful nan accomplishment of being a world champion.

But for nan tighthead, nan other is true; nan excitement of returning to her nine has already sewage her reasoning of driving herself harder towards nan adjacent goal.

"You spell away, you do nan difficult activity pinch England, you get nan occupation done and you've sewage nan chance to travel backmost to a spot and really attraction it backmost connected yourselves," Bern said.

"We had a large domiciled pinch England and this was each astir being a squad and you were doing your domiciled for nan squad and that was really we were going to triumph nan World Cup.

"But it's bully to travel backmost into nan squad astatine Bristol and really attraction on, 'OK what do we arsenic individuals want to get amended at?'.

"It's for illustration a reset, fresh to spell again for nan adjacent cycle. I didn't mind it astatine all, I was excited to beryllium backmost and effort and execute immoderate caller targets and spell for bigger, better, stronger, faster."

By Bern's ain account, nan weeks since nan Red Roses were crowned world champions person been "wild".

"[I went from] winning nan World Cup final, being connected apical of nan world and past doing truthful galore cool appearances aliases going to immoderate cool events, and having immoderate downtime to spot friends and family - and past consecutive backmost into it successful nan rainfall astatine 9:00 p.m. connected a Tuesday nighttime and getting shouted astatine by nan coaches," she said pinch a laugh.

While galore of her team-mates person been successful training since September, nan 79-capped guardant and her chap England internationals only returned to nan nine successful nan past fortnight pinch immoderate caller faces successful situe.

Former Scotland hooker Scott Lawson has travel successful arsenic nan Bears' caller caput coach, while Rhys Oakley has besides joined arsenic protect coach from three-time PWR champions Gloucester-Hartpury.

The changes to nan playbook person taken a small getting utilized to successful specified a short abstraction of time, but Bern thinks successful nan long-run nan squad will beryllium reaping nan rewards.

"It's decidedly been a situation coming successful and learning nan caller worldly beautiful quickly," Bern said.

"It's going to beryllium nosy if we get it right, it'll beryllium really awesome for us.

"Going done those moments wherever we person to study really quickly it's really each correct successful nan extremity because if we get it correct it will lead america to nan top."

Bern feels "extremely confident" astir really women's rugby tin support increasing disconnected nan backmost of nan World Cup, which produced record viewing figures for nan tournament.

There is besides increasing talk astir nan projected caller R360 convention pinch reports that a number of her England team-mates person already signed pre-contract agreements, external.

"Any opportunity for female players to get paid arsenic is ever awesome moreover on those lines but astatine nan infinitesimal I don't cognize excessively overmuch astir it to beryllium capable to remark connected it," said Bern, who signed a new Bristol contract of undisclosed magnitude successful March.

"You've sewage to continually deliberation astir nan maturation of nan women's crippled - arsenic agelong arsenic it's bully for women, let's spot really that goes."

For nan clip being Bern's attraction is afloat connected Bristol.

Their 74-0, 12-try thrashing distant astatine Leicester past Sunday started Lawson's reign connected a high, pinch Bern coming disconnected nan chair for nan last 30 minutes.

Next play they big Saracens successful what she thinks will beryllium a overmuch sterner challenge.

Bristol person reached nan PWR semi-finals 3 times earlier and successful 2024 sewage to their first final. Winning nan convention title still remains elusive though.

"Definitely assured successful nan Bears and nan Bristol measurement truthful I'm excited to spot really we do for nan remainder of nan season," Bern added.