Elite rugby at Cambridge was hit hard by December’s historic defeat. A fifth successive loss against the great rival that is Oxford. The biggest winning margin of all time. Things look bleak.

But alas, there is hope on the horizon for all you Cambridge University rugby aficionados, and it comes in the form of our women’s side, who are preparing for their Varsity fixture at the end of the coming term, on 7th March.

Unlike the boys, who in the build up to that defeat won just a quarter of fixtures, the girls have a one hundred percent record in their BUCS division, with five wins out of five.

In their Women’s NC Division, where they play other Women’s Rugby clubs, they’ve held their own, recording some superb results such as a 67-7 thumping of the Wymondham Wasps.

It is their sheer domination of their BUCS division that will excite the Cambridge rugby following.

The ladies have a goal difference of 272, which is 175 greater than second place Nottingham University, whom they dismantled 19-0 in early November.

Nottingham got lucky. When Bedforshire came to Cambridge in late October, they couldn’t wait to get on the bus home, having suffered a humiliating 83-0 defeat.

De Montfort University also suffered a similar fate when they came to town, going down 73-0. Ruthless.

The chance to fight for a position on the top table of BUCS women’s rugby through a playoff place seems all but assured after a scintillating start to the campaign.

But more prominent on the minds of our formidable ladies will be the fixture against Oxford.

Oxford have had a season that could not be more different to Cambridge’s. Sitting joint bottom, with just one win out of six and boasting a goal difference of an embarrassing -421, they look ripe for the picking.

The only saving grace for the Dark Blues is that they play their trade in the highest Division in the South of England, the Southern Premier, one above Cambridge. The standard is therefore higher than what our ladies currently face.

But let’s not beat around the bush, they’re not coping at all, something illustrated by their last fixture of Michaelmas, a ‘respectable’ 88-0 defeat to Cardiff Metropolitan.

All of this thrown together leads to a mouth-watering prospect of a varsity between the high flying underperformers and low lying over-achievers. With our Cambridge Women’s Team steamrolling every university in sight, avenging the boys’ painful defeat at Twickenham looks a real possibility.

Oxford will be quaking in their boots.