Watch the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s becoming second-nature for the powerful prop, whose fitness has become a major weapon for Jo Yapp\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
On five occasions in the past 12 months the former Wallaroos Player of the Year has lodged over 70 minutes starting at the Test or Super Rugby level.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think for me, especially at the international level,\u00a0you’ve got to be prepared for anything,\u00a0especially when a prop does go down,\u201d Karpani reflected.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we did have a prop go down,\u00a0my first initial thought was be ready for anything\u00a0and make sure you’re ready to go regardless. I think I was lucky enough to get 60 to 80 minutes in Super W,\u00a0so it did prepare me well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think international level, it is a step up,\u00a0but I think mentally I was ready for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wallaroos have never beaten Canada but Karpani was a part of the team that came the closest in 2022.<\/p>\n
On that day in New Zealand, the Australians led at half-time before going down 22-10 in Whangarei.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0think what worked for us was coming back\u00a0to our individual jobs, like just doing your job,\u00a0whether you’re a prop, winger, whatever it is, just doing your job and executing it,\u201d Karpani recalled\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think something we’ve really been focusing on\u00a0as a pack is our 12.5%.\u00a0If we all do our 12.5%, that makes us,\u00a0enables us to give it 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karpani believes an inspired first-half shift against England is fuelling confidence for a big performance and Canada after Australia’s pack wreaked havoc with big scrum penalties and several lineout steals against the Red Roses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we really wanted to throw the first punch\u00a0in set piece, especially scrums, and once we were able to do that\u00a0and score off of our set piece,\u00a0I think it really calmed the nerves,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, they [England] are the top team in the world so after doing that and having a powerful set piece, it gave us a lot of confidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think going into this week,\u00a0having Canada the second-top team in the world,\u00a0I think for us it comes down to how we prepare again.<\/p>\n
“Similar to England, they’re a very strong pack\u00a0and they’re a strong and fast-playing team, but I think everything for us is just worry about\u00a0going back out into our jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallaroos prop Eva Karpani is ready to go the distance again if that\u2019s what it takes to power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-131655","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\/131655","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=131655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}