{"id":53508,"date":"2025-08-08T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53508\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:22:07","slug":"bryan-easson-ready-for-last-dance-with-scotland-at-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53508\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Easson ready for &#8216;last dance&#8217; with Scotland at Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bryan Easson says the fact he is stepping down as Scotland head coach after this month&#8217;s Women&#8217;s World Cup gives the tournament &#8220;an extra edge&#8221; for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scottish Rugby confirmed in July that Easson would depart the role after the tournament when his contract expires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scots kick off their campaign against Wales in Salford on August 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fact that it&#8217;s the last dance, it does put that little bit of an extra edge on it,&#8221; Easson told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/programmes\/p0lvqzwc\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Scotland Rugby Podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just so excited to see what this group can do. We&#8217;ve had some massive highs but some real lows, and we&#8217;ve gone through a lot together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think that&#8217;s probably the strength of the group, some of the adversity that we&#8217;ve gone through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve worked with a lot of these players for the last five, six, seven years and just to see them grow, to see this team grow, going from 12th to fifth in the world and going into every game that we play now to have real belief and we expect to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To finish off a Rugby World Cup certainly does fill me with a lot of excitement, but I&#8217;ll reflect at the end of it. I&#8217;ll look back and it is a job that I have thoroughly enjoyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Easson says the fact he is stepping down as Scotland head coach after this month&#8217;s Women&#8217;s World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-53508","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\/53508","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=53508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}