{"id":57509,"date":"2025-08-10T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:18:06","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-ireland-head-coach-scott-bemand-on-squad-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/57509\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Rugby World Cup: Ireland head coach Scott Bemand on squad selection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland head coach Scott Bemand says he has not yet finalised his squad for the Women’s Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n

After a comeback win over Scotland last week, Ireland were beaten by Canada<\/a> in their final warm-up match before the tournament, which starts in England in two weeks’ time.<\/p>\n

But after a strong second-half performance against the side ranked number two in the world, Bemand said he was “delighted” that players are still fighting for a place in the final 32-player squad that will be announced on Monday.<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of girls that put their hands up, which is really pleasing,” Bemand told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n

“The girls are actually getting used to performing with that pressure. It’s the nature of what we do. In elite sport, there’s always a selection. <\/p>\n

“You’re always competing, and I think over the last two years we’ve certainly got better in that space.”<\/p>\n

Ireland have already lost influential forwards Erin King and Dorothy Wall to injury for the World Cup, while Aoife Wafer did not feature in either warm-up fixture.<\/p>\n

Bemand, though, is pleased with the depth that has built in his panel.<\/p>\n

“As that second half showed, we’ve got more than just a 15 – we’ve got a squad and people that can come on and make differences to a game,” he added.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to take stock of it now and then we’ll see who is in the melting pot to get to the World Cup.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Scott Bemand says he has not yet finalised his squad for the Women’s Rugby World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-57509","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\/57509","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=57509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}