{"id":50341,"date":"2025-08-07T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50341\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:13:08","slug":"red-roses-ellie-kildunne-makes-england-return-against-france-in-final-rugby-world-cup-warm-up-match-rugby-union-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50341\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Roses: Ellie Kildunne makes England return against France in final Rugby World Cup warm-up match | Rugby Union News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie Kildunne will make her return from a leg injury for England against France on Saturday, the Red Roses&#8217; final warm-up game before the home Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup. <\/p>\n<p>World player of the year Kildunne missed England&#8217;s Grand Slam decider against France at Twickenham in April with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Red Roses head coach John Mitchell has made 11 changes to his starting XV for the fixture at Stade Guy Boniface in Mont-de-Marsan.<\/p>\n<p>Zoe Harrison retains her place at fly-half as Hannah Botterman, Amy Cokayne, and Maud Muir come into the front row with Morwenna Talling joining Abbie Ward in the second row.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Zoe Aldcroft makes a return in the back row alongside Sadia Kabeya and Alex Matthews, with Abby Dow coming onto the wing.<\/p>\n<p>England were comprehensive 97-7 victors over Spain earlier this month and will hope for another positive performance ahead ahead of Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup, which kicks off on August 22 when England face the USA in the opening game at Sunderland&#8217;s Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n<p>England: 15 Ellie Kildunne, 14 Abby Dow, 13 Megan Jones, 12 Tatyana Heard, 11 Jess Breach, 10 Zoe Harrison, 9 Natasha Hunt; 1 Hannah Botterman, 2 Amy Cokayne, 3 Maud Muir, 4 Morwenna Talling, 5 Abbie Ward, 6 Zoe Aldcroft (c), 7 Sadia Kabeya, 8 Alex Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: 16 Lark Atkin-Davies, 17 Kelsey Clifford, 18 Sarah Bern, 19 Rosie Galligan, 20 Maddie Feaunati, 21 Lucy Packer, 22 Helena Rowland, 23 Emma Sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellie Kildunne will make her return from a leg injury for England against France on Saturday, the Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-50341","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\/50341","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=50341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}