{"id":53608,"date":"2025-08-08T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53608\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:15:13","slug":"ireland-v-canada-last-warm-up-game-against-canada-well-timed-before-world-cup-scott-bemand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53608\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Canada: Last warm-up game against Canada &#8216;well-timed&#8217; before World Cup &#8211; Scott Bemand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rugby World Cup warm-up: Ireland v Canada<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Venue: Affidea Stadium, Belfast Date: Saturday, 9 August Kick-off: 12:00 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coverage: Live on BBC iPlayer and website with live text commentary on the website and app<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland head coach Scott Bemand says their final warm-up game against Canada presents an &#8220;ideal opportunity&#8221; for his side to test themselves against a &#8220;World Cup contender&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Canada are ranked second in the world and are in Pool B for the World Cup in England where they will face Scotland, Wales and Fiji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland will take on Japan, Spain and reigning champions New Zealand in Pool C and Bemand believes the Canada game will be good preparation for what is to come at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Them being number two in the world I think is well deserved. They have really taken their game up levels in the last four years and it is going to be a challenge, but we need that and we want a battle before we head into the World Cup,&#8221; he told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is well-timed. We want to get our best performance out there to tee us up for the next six weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup warm-up: Ireland v Canada Venue: Affidea Stadium, Belfast Date: Saturday, 9 August Kick-off: 12:00 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-53608","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\/53608","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=53608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}