Get your tickets now for the Wallaroos two-match series against Wales.<\/a><\/p>\n“I was thinking, ‘it’s coming’,” the 32-year-old said ahead of Saturday’s Test against Wales in Brisbane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“With the sevens girls coming in, everyone knew it would shake things up a little bit.<\/p>\n
“It was like, ‘Okay, shit; there’s about to be a bunch of girls that are rapid and with good skills’.<\/p>\n
“I’m a bit older … whether I can match them physically and with pace, or maybe use my wisdom and smarts.<\/p>\n
“It’s about adapting and figuring out how you can become indispensable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“For me, that’s my experience – comms and a bit of my leadership as well.”<\/p>\n
Cramer will provide backline cover in her 30th Test, coming off the bench at Ballymore.<\/p>\n
“You have to put your ego aside; you want to send your best fighters to the fight,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s not about me, it’s about the Wallaroos. So if I’m the best person for the job on the day, then let’s go.”<\/p>\n
The influx hasn’t reached the heights it threatened to when nine sevens stars were pencilled in for Super Rugby Women’s opening round.<\/p>\n
Tia Hinds will wear the No.10 on Saturday while sevens great Charlotte Caslick (ankle) is hoping to be fit for Australia’s second Cup game in late August.<\/p>\n
Fellow Olympian Bienne Terita (hamstring) was in calculations but won’t be fit for the England showpiece while Levi sisters Madison and Teagan withdrew their interest.<\/p>\n
Wins against Fiji and USA have been offset by losses to heavyweights Canada and New Zealand this season.<\/p>\n
Confident progress has been made, Australia – boasting a 7-1 head-to-head against Wales – can prove it in their final two opportunities on home soil.<\/p>\n
Cramer rates Welsh flyhalf Lleucu George the “best boot in women’s rugby … an absolute freak” and expects a thorough examination.<\/p>\n
“We’re hitting our straps when we need to be and the games against Wales can always get a bit fiery,” Cramer said.<\/p>\n
“Everyone’s building for something bigger, but we want to win these Test matches as well.”<\/p>\n
Emily Chancellor will captain Australia with regular skipper Siokapesi Palu (foot) injured, while Ashley Marsters will become the first Wallaroo to play 40 Tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years ago, Lori Cramer caught herself wondering how she was going to keep up with the Wallaroos’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-22288","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\/22288","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=22288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}