{"id":101945,"date":"2025-08-28T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101945\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:35:07","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-2025-elis-martin-starts-as-scots-change-one-for-fiji-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101945\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2025: Elis Martin starts as Scots change one for Fiji clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland have made one change to the side that blew away Wales in their World Cup opener, as hooker Elis Martin starts against Fiji on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin replaces Lana Skeldon, who was a doubt for the tournament due to an ankle injury but played 47 minutes against Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Skeldon misses out entirely for the Scots&#8217; second game, with Molly Wright named as the replacement hooker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Francesca McGhie lines up on the left wing off the back of her stunning hat-trick against Wales, while the other try-scorers from that game &#8211; Leia Brebner-Holden, Evie Gallagher and Emma Orr also retain their spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Bryan Easson has opted for a six-two split on the bench, with lock Adelle Ferrie and prop Anne Young in line for World Cup debuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Number eight Jade Konkel, who was among the replacements against Wales, is not involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland have made one change to the side that blew away Wales in their World Cup opener, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-101945","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\/101945","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=101945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}