Watch the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe game is held at the home of the Premier League side Brighton & Hove Albion, with the hybrid surface cut down to a fine margin for last Sunday\u2019s match against Manchester City.<\/p>\n
Wallaroos centre Georgina Friedrichs, one of several in the team who ply their club footy trade on a similar field at Eastern Suburbs, believes it suits them perfectly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it will benefit us a lot,\u201d she insists.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve got a lot of speed in the backs, so I think a fast pitch really will benefit us with the personnel we have.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026Desi [Miller] and Maya [Stewart] are world-class finishers and obviously England have a strong forward pack so definitely planning to get the ball out wide to those guys, hopefully better than we have previously.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wallaroos weren\u2019t buying into the added noise around this game that comes with facing the hosts.<\/p>\n
A record crowd for Rugby at the venue is expected, with tickets basically sold out, which would eclipse the mark set by the World Cup games in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve been preparing the entire World Cup for this game. I’m really proud of the campaign we’ve had during this World Cup and leading into this game, pressure is a privilege,\u201d back-rower Piper Duck said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou play rugby to compete, we train to compete at the highest level and to be given the opportunity to come against England,\u00a0the world’s best right now, and to create that upset and be that underdog. I’m really excited for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, there’s pressure, but I’m not seeing it like that. I’m seeing it as an opportunity. <\/p>\n
“It’s an opportunity for us to go out firing and to really make an impact on Saturday and to go in that game absolutely swinging.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallaroos are hoping the fast nature of Brighton & Hove Stadium will aid them in their quest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-120924","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\/120924","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=120924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}