Codling added: “I’m not working directly with her, but in terms of running, she joined in with the lineouts, that gives an indication that she’s on track and going really well.”<\/p>\n
Codling also said Ireland are “looking after” Edel McMahon after the co-captain sat out part of Wednesday’s training session. <\/p>\n
Having missed both warm-up games, McMahon managed 75 minutes in the win over Japan. <\/p>\n
“It’s important for us as a coaching group, we’re managing loads of players and she’s obviously been out for a while,” explained Codling. <\/p>\n
“She was exceptional at the weekend so we’re looking after her and making sure she is fit and ready.”<\/p>\n
Spain opened their World Cup campaign with a 54-8 loss to holders New Zealand, but ran Ireland close in their WXV3 meeting in 2023 after winning the 2021 World Cup qualifier between the sides. <\/p>\n
Spain are ranked 13th in the world, eight places below Ireland, but Codling insists “a piece of paper has never won games”. <\/p>\n
“I think we treat everyone the same, for lots of different reasons. Certainly, they are a team that will challenge us. <\/p>\n
“They have got a lot of Sevens players in the group, and you could see against New Zealand, if you give them space and time they will hurt you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Codling added: “I’m not working directly with her, but in terms of running, she joined in with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-100365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}