{"id":158324,"date":"2025-09-21T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158324\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:22:08","slug":"68-test-black-fern-finds-multiple-positives-in-comprehensive-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158324\/","title":{"rendered":"68-Test Black Fern finds multiple positives in comprehensive defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In what was a hugely disappointing semi-final in Bristol on Saturday, former Black Fern and legend of Women\u2019s Rugby in New Zealand, Kendra Cocksedge<\/a>, has found some positives from the heavy defeat.<\/p>\n

The Black Ferns have struggled at the start of most of their games in this year\u2019s World Cup in England, and were hurt by it once again against Canada, who managed to get ahead by 31-7 at one point.<\/p>\n

But despite the Black Ferns being completely outplayed in most facets of the game, Cocksedge has highlighted the emergence of loose forward Kaipo Olsen Baker as a positive from the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to give credit to the Black Ferns for the brilliance, they had patches of it and it just unfortunately wasn\u2019t for the whole, the whole 80 minutes,\u201d Cocksedge told Daniel McHardy on Sport Nation\u2019s Saturday Session.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for someone like Kaipo Olsen-Baker<\/a> I think she had 24 carries, which is, like, huge in a match, and it looked like she was trying to carry it all on her shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n

There has been a fair amount of discussion surrounding rugby circles around how professional athletes were beaten by amateurs, but Cocksedge doesn\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike, I don\u2019t look at it as amateur, and probably get that that is the case, but at the same time, in terms of the way Canada<\/a> play, like they play with a lot of heart and a lot of drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a lot harder when you go to work and work full time and train at the same time, that\u2019s what you can almost bring to it, it\u2019s just added that extra bit of heart and you can see them playing for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause they\u2019re playing for more, because they\u2019ve left work behind and at home and stuff. So I think it\u2019s really, it\u2019s really cool to be able to see a team actually join together and play like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a long way away now, but Cocksedge feels excited about what the future holds for the Black Ferns and Women\u2019s rugby in New Zealand, even though many will be hurting after Saturday\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got the players there, we\u2019ve got the players coming through, you can always argue that there needs to be more Test matches, or it could be, you know, expanded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s all these things that kind of come into play. But at the end of the day that management coaching group, had to put their best foot forward to get this team and get the platforms well prepared for the World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, a Braxton Sorensee-McGee, she\u2019s 18 years old, and I know just from my role within the space, another pathway, a lot of the young talent coming through, we\u2019re just going to continue to finish with them and grow them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to the next World Cup, to be honest with you, I\u2019m like, okay, so what we do now for the next four years to make sure those players are coming through, and again, they can be well supported and get what they need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what was a hugely disappointing semi-final in Bristol on Saturday, former Black Fern and legend of Women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-158324","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\/158324","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=158324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}