46-5 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\nCanada struck after just 90 seconds via through Asia Hogan-Rochester and led 31-5 at half time before kicking on to secure their semi final berth against New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the last few years, their program’s really grown and you can see it out on the field. They’re really connected from their 1 to their 23,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they [Canada] are quite versatile in what they bring to the game in terms of their pack as well as their backs. I think it’s just a matter of us stepping up to the challenge,\u201d Tuinakauvadra said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you can see glimpses of that, like us putting it to them and it’s just a matter of us stepping up to the plate and just really giving it back. <\/p>\n
There were certainly glimpses for Australia, chief among them Miller’s sparkling run down the left edge to level the scores after seven minutes.<\/p>\n
It took her tournament tally to six tries \u2013 putting her equal third on the all-time Wallaroos World Cup try scorers list – and her Test career tally to 15, just one behind all-time Test tries leader Maya Stewart (16).<\/p>\n
Miller downplayed her achievements in favour of highlighting outgoing coach Jo Yapp, who leaves a legacy well beyond her eight wins and Australia\u2019s maiden WXV title.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think she [Yapp] has had a great impact, started something really special and hopefully something that we can continue on again, maintain that connection and grow from here\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSad to see her leave, but I think she’s left it in a better place and hopefully we can, with our new coach, wherever it may be, carry that on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven’t really taken a step back yet. It’s just been head down and focusing on each game and each week, so I guess I’ll go back and have a look at that and kind of celebrate the small wins and take the positives out of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there’s a lot to work on and I guess that’s the best part, you know, there’s more that I could give and there’s more that we could give. “<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia might be out of the 2025 World Cup race but Desiree Millier and Tabua Tuinakauvadra believe these…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-143302","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\/143302","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=143302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}