Watch the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, the future is bright for the group with a host of players set to come into their prime for the first World Cup on home soil.<\/p>\n
12 out of the 23 that took the field are 25 and under, including forwards Piper Duck and Kaitlan Leaney, who were beaming at the thought of what the group could achieve.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s extremely exciting\u2026.We’ve had girls now in Australia, thankfully,\u00a0playing rugby so much younger,\u00a0and the talent coming through is just astronomical\u00a0at such a young age,\u201d Duck said to Rugby.com.au and RugbyPass<\/p>\n
\u201cNow heading into the World Cup in 2029, it is an extremely exciting decade of rugby for women, and I’m extremely proud to be part of it, but even more proud to be a Wallaroo because of what we can create in the next four years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no limit, I truly believe that because the talent and the belief\u00a0we’ve now grown in this group\u00a0and the culture we’re growing here,\u00a0it’s only going to go up\u00a0and I’m really proud to be part of it\u00a0and what this 2029 World Cup can offer us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just\u00a0exciting to see\u00a0the growth\u00a0that the game\u00a0has had in Australia\u00a0and the young girls\u00a0coming through,\u201d Leaney added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve got young people like Waiaria Ellis and Caitlin Halse who, their first introduction to Wallaroos, were together for 100 nights [on the road playing games], so it’s absolutely incredible, and I think it’s just exciting to see where we’re going to be at our home World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n
One player who won\u2019t be there in 2029 is leader Emily Chancellor, who insists that while this isn\u2019t retirement right now, she won\u2019t be going around in four years’ time.<\/p>\n
Chancellor joined the group a decade ago (debuting three years later) when preparation was a one-week camp, and warm-up World Cup games were the only hitouts before events like this.<\/p>\n
She can see the potential of the team after back-to-back quarter-final appearances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe limit does not exist. I think there is no limit,\u201d Chancellor believes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it is super exciting.\u00a0We do have a group of girls who, as a core,\u00a0will probably, if they want to stay in it,\u00a0stay in it for the next four years.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’ve got a lot of girls under 25\u00a0who it’s easily in their grasp to stay around for another four years.\u00a0I am super excited to see what that looks like\u00a0from the sideline in four years’ time. \u00a0I say it like I’m leaving, I ain’t going anywhere, guys but what I love is that we have this youthful group coming through and they’ve got so much experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re getting so much more confidence\u00a0in the way they want to call the game, play the game,\u00a0believe themselves, back themselves\u2026I think we’re in a really great position\u00a0where more games together, which we’re getting,\u00a0means we’re going to be in a really strong position\u00a0in the next couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallaroos are excited about their future as their young core of stars prepare for a massive four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-141028","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\/141028","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=141028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}