{"id":32619,"date":"2025-07-30T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32619\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:30:08","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-irelands-aoife-wafer-definitely-not-ruled-out-of-tournament-says-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32619\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Ireland&#8217;s Aoife Wafer &#8216;definitely not&#8217; ruled out of tournament, says coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When pressed if Wafer is in a race against time to recover in time for the tournament in England, Fogarty responded: &#8220;No, we&#8217;re quite confident that she will play some part in the World Cup, which is really, really pleasing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the moment she&#8217;s tracking really well. It&#8217;s just making sure it&#8217;s right for her when she comes back into it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland have been hit by injury setbacks in the build-up to the World Cup, with forwards Erin King and Dorothy Wall having been ruled out of the tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt about it, losing three key players like that has been difficult,&#8221; added Fogarty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But that&#8217;s the nature of the game. We&#8217;ve had Sam [Monaghan] coming back in, which is a big addition for us and there&#8217;s been other girls coming through which have impressed us throughout the camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Injuries like that, they&#8217;re always going to come. They&#8217;re not ideal going into a World Cup but it&#8217;s something we have to deal with and adapt with and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve done over the last couple of weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When pressed if Wafer is in a race against time to recover in time for the tournament in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-32619","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\/32619","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=32619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}