The Gloucester-Hartpury prop was seen as a utility player when she made her Test debut in 2021 but she prefers to focus on playing at tighthead rather than spreading herself too thinly these days.

She told Rugby World magazine: ”If you look at the men’s game, no one plays both loosehead and tighthead. It’s too difficult.

“It got me into the squad and I’m grateful I could do it and I could still play loosehead in an emergency.

“But the two roles are so different.

“If you want to be the best scrummaging prop, you need to focus on one.

“after the previous World Cup, that’s what I wanted to do – get really good at one of them.

“As a prop, your super-skill should be the scrum and everything else comes afterwards.

“Obviously I want to be dominant in collisions, on both sides of the ball.

“But to be a good prop, scrums come first.”

Maud thinks the best scrum strategy involves more than just technique and strength.

She explained: “I’d add in another category, the mental battle.

“But it all lends itself to each other. If you’re strong,. You’re able to do the technique and then you’re mentally in a good place; if you don’t have one, you probably don’t have the other.

“You can survive but might not thrive. You need all three elements really.”