{"id":125066,"date":"2025-09-07T07:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125066\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:59:10","slug":"wallaroos-left-feeling-mixed-emotions-after-pushing-red-roses-to-the-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125066\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallaroos left feeling ‘mixed emotions’ after pushing Red Roses to the limit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There were varied feelings in the Wallaroos<\/a> changing room after their 47-4 loss to England\u2019s Red Roses<\/a> in their final Pool A game.<\/p>\n

On one hand the Australians had lost a game heavily to the tournament favourites, but on the other Jo Yapp\u2019s side enjoyed a dominant opening 30 minutes against the 2025 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/a> hosts and secured a quarter-final clash with Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s definitely mixed emotions in the changing rooms,\u201d Australia<\/a> captain, Siokapesi Palu<\/a>, said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe can take positives and I think we probably shocked ourselves knowing that we can compete and that 30 minutes showed that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I guess, disappointment is just knowing that we need a gull 80 minute performance in a World Cup. It\u2019s do or die and you\u2019ve got to put everything out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

At full-time on the south coast Yapp was held aloft by her team. Not in recognition of their achievement, but in celebration of her birthday.<\/p>\n

Back in the confines of a press conference Palu joked that \u201cthere will be cake\u201d to celebrate the 70-cap England<\/a> international later that night.<\/p>\n

There is a bittersweet feeling to all of the Wallaroos efforts in England as Yapp\u2019s tenure of the side draws to a close. During her time as the nation\u2019s first full-time women\u2019s head coach Yapp has seen peaks and troughs in the team\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon\u2019s kick-based approach asked questions of England. Ellie Kildunne<\/a>, prior to her removal from the contest with symptoms of concussion, made four individual errors as the ball rained down from the pale blue sky.<\/p>\n

Forcing those uncharacteristic mistakes was all part of Yapp\u2019s plan and Adiana Talakai<\/a>\u2019s sixth minute score was the Wallaroos\u2019 reward, before her side fell away as the game wore on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scoreline blew out a bit in that second half,\u201d Yapp said. \u201cThe first half we were really in the game and were really competitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were executing that we wanted to, but we knew England were going to come out hard in the second half and we started to lose a couple of our launch plays, which put ourselves under pressure a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up for the Wallaroos are Canada. Regular opponents in the Pacific Four Series<\/a>, Australia have never beaten their North American opponents in seven meetings and will have the memory of their 45-7 drubbing in Brisbane ringing in their ears.<\/p>\n

That day K\u00e9vin Rouet\u2019s Canadians found it easy to breakdown Australia\u2019s defence and saw seven different try scorers cross the whitewash at Lang Park.<\/p>\n

In short, Canada<\/a> made it look easy. Much the same can be said for how the Maple Leafs have acquitted themselves at the World Cup as they topped Pool B with a series of dominant wins over Fiji<\/a>, Wales<\/a> and Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But with over three months distance between themselves and that result, as well as Saturday\u2019s promise against the Red Roses, there could be a renewed confidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe definitely want to make sure that we start well,\u201d Yapp said. \u201cI watched some of the Scotland-Canada game, I think Scotland<\/a> performed really well against them today and took some really good opportunities against them. We\u2019ll preview that, look at how we can attack for next week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were varied feelings in the Wallaroos changing room after their 47-4 loss to England\u2019s Red Roses in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-125066","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\/125066","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=125066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}