{"id":128357,"date":"2025-09-08T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128357\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:42:07","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-wales-aware-opposite-of-success-is-failure-elinor-snowsill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128357\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Wales aware &#8216;opposite of success is failure&#8217; &#8211; Elinor Snowsill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following their defeat to Fiji, head coach Sean Lynn insisted that Wales are in a much better place than they were after the Six Nations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynn, who was appointed in January, said his side showed &#8220;character and that we are being brave&#8221; during their winless World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Snowsill pointed the finger away from Lynn, adding that a fair assessment of his role can only be made after the next World Cup in 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was very, very sad after the game,&#8221; added Snowsill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It took me a long time to pull myself out of it. Today I have woken up, it is a fresh start and the only way is up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know very clearly the areas we need to work on and we have the resources to work on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a fresh new cycle now, we have four years to get things right, so I&#8217;m moving on and focusing on what we need to do now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s not forget Sean Lynn inherited Ioan Cunningham&#8217;s contracted playing group and staffing group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sean has not had too much of a say in the build-up. You look at World Cups in four-year cycles, you can judge someone after they have done a full cycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following their defeat to Fiji, head coach Sean Lynn insisted that Wales are in a much better place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-128357","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\/128357","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=128357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}