Watch the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nAlong with this, Yapp has served as coach in some capacity for the majority of the 23 named for the clash throughout the pathways.<\/p>\n
This includes English backrower and captain Alex Matthews, whom Yapp coached during her time at Worcester Women.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do [know a lot of the English well], having coached quite a few obviously through the pathway with England, but for\u00a0us, the way we’ve approached it is the same as we’ve approached any other game. Nothing’s\u00a0changed from that perspective,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think straight away we look\u00a0at the lead up and the games building up to it and straight away my mind went into that\u00a0rather than the specific that it was England\u2026.These were under 20s when I coached them so\u00a0it’s been a few years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yapp\u2019s focus has been on steadying the side after a rollercoaster draw to the USA threw their World Cup campaign into uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Four tries against England would be enough for a bonus point, win or loss, to advance to the quarter-finals, although a sizeable points difference compared to America gives them a significant advantage.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a slightly different scenario than what we thought we’d be facing because\u00a0ultimately after a game you kind of know either way and the not knowing,\u201d she admits.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe spent some time\u00a0on Sunday evening as a group just going through all the scenarios and putting everything out\u00a0on the table for the players so they know exactly like what is required for us obviously\u00a0to qualify.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom that point on, we put that to one side\u00a0and now we just focus on our normal test week because we know what we need to do.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026We obviously are aware of [the permutations around the bonus point] so if it comes later in the game and there’s decisions to\u00a0be made we’ll make sure those messages go on to players. Ultimately, we have to focus on what we can control in terms of our own performances and what we need to do to be able to perform, and then everything else, as the game goes on, we can get the right messages out to players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallaroos coach Jo Yapp insists there will be no split loyalties as she plans to take down her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-119072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallaroos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119072","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=119072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}