{"id":138294,"date":"2025-09-12T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138294\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:28:09","slug":"wallaroos-take-lessons-from-past-defeat-to-canada-into-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138294\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallaroos take lessons from past defeat to Canada into quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canada<\/a> coach Kevin Rouet explained at a press conference this week that the Wallaroos aren\u2019t \u201cthe same team that we played five months ago.\u201d Australia<\/a> were beaten 45-7 at Brisbane\u2019s Suncorp Stadium, but they\u2019ve taken the lessons and grown in confidence since.<\/p>\n

While the Wallaroos are winless in their all-time head-to-head record against Canada, the Aussies are looking to progress past the quarter-final stage at the 2025 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup, and you could see how motivated they are at their captain\u2019s run on Friday.<\/p>\n

Australia played seven Tests before making the long haul trip to Manchester, where they started their World Cup campaign with a record 73-0 win over Samoa. The Wallaroos drew with the USA<\/a> 31-all the following week, and led England<\/a> until the 31st minute in Brighton.<\/p>\n

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Four months on from a one-sided defeat in the Pacific Four Series, the Wallaroos are embracing the opportunity to play in a quarter-final. Assistant coach Chris Delooze made that clear at Ashton Gate, saying the Wallaroos are focused on doing \u201cour own job first.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat game actually taught us a few things because if we look back then, that was game four in that time and it\u2019s also game four [in the World Cup] right now,\u201d Delooze said when reflecting on the last meeting with Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of lessons taken from that in our approach and obviously the build-up\u2026 it\u2019s an exciting week because we actually get\u2026 a chance to put what we didn\u2019t do so well that day into practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working really hard on a lot of things on both sides of the ball, knowing that potentially this was going to be our game.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully we get a few things right but momentum is going to be a big one. We need to make sure we control that in the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets are still available for the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup<\/a> quarter-finals and can be purchased HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adiana Talakai scored the opener last weekend at Brighton & Hove Albion Stadium, as Jo Yapp\u2019s Wallaroos took a shock lead over the Red Roses. While England struck back soon after through Jess Breach<\/a>, a wayward conversion meant the Australians remained in the lead.<\/p>\n

Australia held onto a slight advantage on the scoreboard for a majority of the first half, before the tournament hosts took control, eventually running away with a comprehensive victory ahead of the knockout phase of the competition.<\/p>\n

Coach Yapp has made a couple of significant changes following that result, with the two most-capped players in Wallaroos history shifting to the bench. Ashley Marsters<\/a> and Trilleen Pomare<\/a> will both look to make a difference off the pine at Bristol\u2019s Ashton Gate.<\/p>\n

Piper Duck forms a loose forwards trio with Emily Chancellor<\/a> and captain Siokapesi Palu. As for the locks, Yapp has turned to the ever-reliable second row duo of Kaitlan Leaney<\/a> and Michaela Leonard<\/a> ahead of what is expected to be a fierce set-piece battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cSet pieces are a huge strength of the Canadians, they\u2019ve got this really big, physical and athletic pack,\u201d Leonard told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen that they like to use them in attack and they\u2019re quite effective at it as well. But reflecting on our journey, we have come a huge way and we showed last week that the set piece is becoming a strength of ours as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada coach Kevin Rouet explained at a press conference this week that the Wallaroos aren\u2019t \u201cthe same team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-138294","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\/138294","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=138294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}