Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Women’s live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nIt comes with the Wallaroos set to officially become full-time towards the end of the year, ahead of the 2029 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n
Walsh found himself at the forefront of the Sevens’ move to full-time in 2014, powering them to Olympic gold two years later.<\/p>\n
The World Series champion is confident of doing the same in 2029 in the hunt for a maiden podium.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been doing the Sevens for a fair while, and have an impact on Rugby Australia, but a further impact on women’s sport, it was a very attractive proposition,” Walsh said to the media. <\/p>\n
“The objective is to win more, and that’s the goal and the ambition for not only myself, but all the players and the organisation.<\/p>\n
“… There are a lot of things that go into winning, and a lot of it comes down to that day. It’s all the work done prior, and I think this is a massive step forward to give us the best opportunity. <\/p>\n
“It’s creating an opportunity for the team to perform at their best, and that’s the objective: to give both the Sevens programs and the Wallaroos the opportunity to perform at their best, which then the outcome will end up being at the top.”<\/p>\n
Walsh understands the challenge but remains optimistic that they can close the gap to the likes of the Black Ferns and England’s Red Roses.<\/p>\n
He pointed to the prospect of the 2028 Olympics and a home World Cup the following year, the perfect carrot to retain and attract the best players amid a competitive sporting market.<\/p>\n
“We’re poised in a position to make a difference and there’ll be different benchmarks and measurements along the way\u00a0to make sure that we are hitting targets,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“The more opportunities the women get to play, the better and it’s a real positive for sport, but then you do have those positive tensions. <\/p>\n
“You look at what this product is or what rugby is and you’ve got [2028] Olympic Games, a home Olympic Games at ’32, and a home Rugby World Cup, I think the best of the best talent will be looking to be playing in those competitions.<\/p>\n
“It’s a real positive for women’s sport, and it enables recruitment, retention, and development of players to have choices, but when you’ve got a product that we have and the benchmark events that the world is going to be watching, it’s a real positive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Director of Women’s High Performance Tim Walsh is aiming high as he looks to bring his Sevens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-752272","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\/752272","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=752272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}