To add insult to injury, the enquiry goes even further to ask what position they like to play.

    Ah, the rise of women's rugby. It's brought the double entendre to whole new realms in conversations across the county.

    It was only in Spring time that training began at Enniskillen Rugby Club for women who were interested in learning the game. Turnout was in the region of 30 and above, and now after a short break for summer, training has resumed at Mullaghmeen.

    While instruction in how to field the average double entendre is not on the training plan, other skills that are helpful on the pitch are. Rucking, tackling and passing are all practised in well-organised drills as well as general fitness training. The women have been playing touch rugby as well as the full contact game. And all age groups have been involved from girls at school to women into their 30s and beyond.

    "We are trying to get girls out and get them involved in the club," explained Willie Balfour who has been involved in training the women since Spring. Having coached youth soccer, helping to secure silverware for the Kesh under 12s just over a decade ago, this is Willie's latest coaching challenge.

    To put out a team of players, a minimum of 25 to 30 players are needed. If there are not sufficient numbers for 15 a-side, there are still plans to put together a 10 or seven a-side team. Willie is hopeful that some form of competitive game will be set up for the team by the end of October.

    So what can women interested in taking part in the sport expect from their night's training? There are basic handling drills, learning to pass and line up offensively and defensively. "It is a basic general knowledge of the complete game," Willie explained.

    The majority of women have never picked up a rugby ball in their lives prior to this and many don't have more than scant knowledge of this complex game. So it's a matter of starting from scratch and teaching all the basics and then developing their game.

    Already there has been a big improvement in their skills. "One of the skills we were teaching last week was looping round and pop passing as opposed to passing on the shoulder. One of the girls performed it as well as I have seen it performed at any standard and it created a try for the attacking side. It was totally off the cuff. Because she had been doing it in the drills, it came naturally," Willie recounted.

    And the development of new players is helped at this stage by the fact they are playing alongside women who have been learning the game for a couple of months. "There is a mix of experience. It seems the people that are coming in raw are catching on really quickly," he said.

    The club is keen to see women on the pitch as well as taking part in social events in the clubhouse. "There is a good social side to rugby, which is probably more so than for any other sport," Willie said.

    Corinna Power, one of the women rugby players, believes that there is fun to be had for women both in events organised in the clubhouse and on the pitch. "It is good crack. Exercise for me is a chore. Rugby is played outdoors, it's a team sport so it's much, much more fun," she said. The training is enjoyable. "There is nothing boring about it. All the drills are different. It is totally different to any form of exercise that I have done before. And the mental aspect of the game is stimulating," she said.

    And the reaction of men to her new-found sport? The double entendre raises its head. "They laughed their heads off. We got the traditional 'What position do you play' and 'Are you a hooker'. But that is just the male point of view," she said.

    Women shouldn't be put off by the fear that it's a rough, man's game, she believes. "I think women should get involved in physical sports. We are seen to be clean and pampered and vain and running around getting a bit mucky does not do us any harm. I think more women should," she said.