Does anyone know a stream of the Ferns Game vs. Scotland?
There is never much TV coverage of the Cyprus Cup which is a second tier women's international tournament and not very prestigious.
The better women's teams (top ten) play in the Algarve Cup in Portugal which is usually held around the same time.
NZ are considered a hard-working side internationally but are not considered good enough to be invited to the Algarve Cup.
So we regularly compete in the Cyprus Cup.
NZ have only been invited to compete once in the Algarve Cup - last year when we finished fourth out of the eight teams competing.
However it was a weaker competition than normal wit only one country from the world's top ten.
NZ won only one game of the four they played but still finished fourth.
So, back to this year's Cyprus Cup where world number 19 NZ lost 2-3 to number 21 Scotland in the Fern's first game for six months.
This year's Cyprus Cup has 12 teams, five from world rankings 10 - 20, the rest from places 21 - 40.
NZ (ranked 19) plays Austria (ranked 24) and South Korea (ranked 18) the next two group games.
Unless the Ferns get results in those games, their world ranking will continue to slide...
They're probably more likely to get a result vs. Austria than South Korea.