{"id":175892,"date":"2025-09-28T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175892\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:50:07","slug":"ellie-kildunne-on-what-fans-can-expect-next-from-the-red-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175892\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellie Kildunne on what fans can expect next from the Red Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ellie Kildunne admits England<\/a> have become the game\u2019s number one target as they aim to create a dynasty of success in the wake of their World Cup triumph.<\/p>\n

The Red Roses are celebrating the resounding 33-13 victory over Canada<\/a> at a sold-out Allianz Stadium on Saturday that provided closure on their history of near-misses in finals.<\/p>\n

Factor in an unprecedented 33-Test winning run and a huge lead at the top of the world rankings and they undeniably stand the summit of women\u2019s rugby.<\/p>\n

Kildunne is eyeing a successful title defence in Australia<\/a> in four years but knows that from now on, they will always be in the crosshairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we have the ambition to keep on getting better in every training session and every game, there is no reason why we can\u2019t win a World Cup again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is long time away and there will be people chasing our tails. Everyone wants to knock off the top team, everyone wants to be a World Cup champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not something that is ever going to be given, it is something we are going to have to work on. We will keep striving to be better.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be an entertaining team, we want to score tries from every single corner of the pitch because we want more fans to come down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The great unknown on the march to Twickenham was just how much the weight of history would weigh upon English shoulders after six successive visits to the World Cup final had produced just one win, including an agonising late collapse in 2022.<\/p>\n

But apart from leaking an early try to Asia Hogan-Rochester<\/a> from a line-out miss throw, they hardly put a foot wrong in demolishing the tournament\u2019s form side.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I didn\u2019t want to feel the way I did at the last World Cup, but in my head that was never going to happen because it\u2019s a new tournament. We were here to win,\u201d Kildunne said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t feel the pressure in the first place. Pressure just means people care. It\u2019s about setting an expectation that people expect you to meet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the pressure, I love that people want to come to watch us, that people expect me to play well. And the team as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no sense of relief, I always believed we would do well in this tournament. We\u2019re going to keep on building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kildunne delivered the individual highlight of the match with a breathtaking solo try that set England on the path to victory shortly after seeing Hogan-Rochester breach their defence.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old broke through the wall of red shirts before racing over in a run that swept her past six attempted tackles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an instinctive player and there are people in front of me I have to try and avoid. It\u2019s fight or flight and I\u2019m in flight trying to avoid as many people as I can to get over the line,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a full-back and finisher and that\u2019s my job. In the same way your props are expected to scrum, your back three are expected to score.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just one of those moments and I was just proud to put the team on the board. It\u2019s pretty cool scoring in front of 82,000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellie Kildunne admits England have become the game\u2019s number one target as they aim to create a dynasty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-175892","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\/175892","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=175892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}