Watch every game of the Women’s Rugby World Cup live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe 30-year-old was named in the Wallaroos\u2019 2025 Rugby World Cup squad with a view towards being available for the must-win game against the Americans.<\/p>\n
With England and Samoa in the pool, the clash with the Eagles shapes as almost a knockout game for the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Caslick, who was a starring performer in their last match against the USA, is doing everything in her power to be fit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think as soon as it happened I knew it wasn’t good, but then I’ve been trying to be as positive as possible,\u201d she conceded to reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it happened, I knew it would be touch\u00a0and go and the time frame is probably a little bit tighter than I would have hoped it would\u00a0be, but I’m doing what I can to get as best as I can to some stage of the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re aiming for the USA game, but yeah, I think that’s above my pay grade\u2026.I just turn up to training and then other people make decisions around that (laughs).\u201d<\/p>\n
Caslick has company in the rehab department, with captain Siokapesi Palu also aiming for a return for the second match of the group stages.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re definitely in a very similar position at the moment so I feel for her too.\u00a0She’s had an amazing season and being captain of the team,\u201d she notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we just\u00a0can support each other through it and bounce off each other every day that we’re in here\u00a0at training and just praying for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
The injury came at a frustrating time for the two-time World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year as she started to find her feet in the new format.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I was learning a lot every single time I played, and I think I was getting better at every test I had on the field, but I do think back in Wellington, I was starting to hit my straps, so that’s a bummer,\u201d she admits.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m sure I haven’t forgotten how to play rugby in the last three weeks.\u00a0So I’ll be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Red believes the Australian side is on an exponential rise as they look to go better than their quarter-final appearance in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they have so much potential,\u201d Caslick added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe game against Wales last Friday just proved how much improvement we’ve had in the last 12 months, and there are so many world-class players in that side.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaya Stewart coming back from injury I think she scored in her first touch and that’s just something that not many players can do so having her back in the fold is amazing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve got just so much depth, not just our backline but I feel like the amount of game time we’ve had in training,\u00a0we just keep getting better and better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallaroos and Sevens star Charlotte Caslick is doing everything in her power to be fit for Australia\u2019s crunch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-47031","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\/47031","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=47031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}