Watch the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nWhen you walk around the ground, there are mementos of the result, with the score and result emblazoned on the wall in the north end.<\/p>\n
The result was so seismic that it led to a movie being made about the game in 2019.<\/p>\n
While a Wallaroos result would not be on the same scale, it\u2019s easy to see the similarities.<\/p>\n
Foreign coaches coached both Australia and Japan with innate knowledge of the other team – Jones spent time as a technical advisor for the Springboks in their 2007 title-winning campaign, and Yapp coached throughout the English system.<\/p>\n
Both enjoy a fast-paced style of Rugby that will suit the football pitch against a forward-dominance powerhouse with flair and pace on the edges.<\/p>\n
On top of this, both have an eye to the future, hosting the World Cup in the following cycle.<\/p>\n
Wallaroos lock Kaitlan Leaney admits the result can serve as motivation for the team as they fight for their World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have talked about that Japan and South Africa game and we\u2019re not going to shy away from that because it’s a cool stadium\u00a0and it would be pretty cool to repeat history,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if you get too caught up in chasing the outcome, then you’ll lose the game a little.\u00a0So, it’s important for us as a team to kind of go out there and stick to our processes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s really cool to see that a game like that has been held here. It’s definitely something I personally have looked at and I think looking at that is really cool to see what can be accomplished,\u201d back-rower Piper Duck added.<\/p>\n
But the task to take down the Red Roses can\u2019t be understated.<\/p>\n
Winger Jess Breach is a perfect representation of just how dominant they have been.<\/p>\n
Breach, who debuted in 2017, is set to bring up her 50th cap for England on the weekend.<\/p>\n
She has never lost. <\/p>\n
That’s more wins than the Wallaroos have managed in their 31-year history.<\/p>\n
The Wallaroos don\u2019t need a win to qualify for the knockout stages, with their place secured if they can manage the points difference with the USA, who play against Samoa earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
But the message is clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re not worried about the points difference. We’re coming here to win and that’s our mindset,\u201d assistant coach Sam Neads said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Wallaroos need any motivation to take down England, they don\u2019t have to look far in Brighton.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-121779","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\/121779","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=121779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}