{"id":40694,"date":"2025-08-03T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40694\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:26:08","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-englands-marlie-packer-available-for-opener-despite-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40694\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: England&#8217;s Marlie Packer available for opener despite red card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP<\/p>\n<p>Aug 3, 2025, 12:04 PM ET<a data-behavior=\"copy_link\" data-social-tool=\"copy\" href=\"#\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-chain-solid-before reactions-copy-link copy-link\" aria-label=\"Copy Link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/check.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80.png\" alt=\"Copy Link\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a data-social-tool=\"email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Women%27s%20Rugby%20World%20Cup%3A%20England%27s%20Marlie%20Packer%20available%20for%20opener%20despite%20red%20card&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Frugby%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F45892090\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-email-solid-before email social-clicks-email\" aria-label=\"Email\">Email<\/a><a data-social-tool=\"print\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/print?id=45892090\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link print icon-font-before icon-print-solid-before page-action\" aria-label=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Print<\/a>Open Extended Reactions<\/p>\n<p>Flanker Marlie Packer will be available for England&#8217;s opening match in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup after she received a one-match ban on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Stand-in captain Packer was sent off on Saturday during a 97-7 win over Spain in a World Cup warmup in Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>In a ruck clearout, her shoulder targeted and bent the leg of fullback Claudia Pena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Match report: <a href=\"http:\/\/k\/rugby\/story\/_\/id\/45886053\/england-enjoy-97-7-rout-packer-doubt-women-rugby-world-cup-opener\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">England 97-7 Spain in World Cup warm-up<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/rugby\/story\/_\/id\/45810203\/women-rugby-world-cup-england-name-experienced-32-player-squad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: England name experienced 32-player squad<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/rugby\/story\/_\/id\/44870044\/england-cruised-womens-six-nations-title-do-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">England cruised to the 6N title. Can they do it at the World Cup?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Packer didn&#8217;t accept it was a red card offense at her disciplinary hearing but the panel disagreed and considered the foul play reckless.<\/p>\n<p>She will miss England&#8217;s final warmup against France next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>England opens the World Cup against the United States on Aug. 22 in Sunderland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Aug 3, 2025, 12:04 PM ETEmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions Flanker Marlie Packer will be available for England&#8217;s opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-40694","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\/40694","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=40694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}