World champions, six straight Grand Slams, WXV winners and a record-breaking streak of 33 successive Test wins - England's dominance is now the defining feature of the women's rugby landscape. If you wind back seven years to 2018, England had won only one of the preceding half-dozen Six Nations. They had lost six out of their last seven meetings with New Zealand, including the 2017 Rugby World Cup final. Behind the scenes though, two decisions were being taken that supercharged England's progress to the top of the game, culminating in Saturday's World Cup final win over Canada. In October 2016, the Rugby Football Union announced the establishment of a new domestic women's league.