Watch every second of Super Rugby Women’s live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, in an ominous sign for the rest of the competition, the second-rower says there is plenty of growth left in the team.<\/p>\n
“We talk about evolving each week.It’s one of our themes this year, and I think we haven’t been super happy with the two performances we’ve put out, but we have got those wins,” Leaney said.<\/p>\n
“It’s important for us, and we’re really hungry to go out there on Saturday and really prove a point in this competition and make sure that we put in a really good performance that we’re happy with.<\/p>\n
“We’re letting teams into the game through our lack of discipline so really looking to sharpen that up this weekend.”<\/p>\n
Leaney will lead the side with regular captain Emily Chancellor called up to skipper the famous Barbarians against Wales at Twickenham.<\/p>\n
The two have co-captained the Wallaroos together but the chance to take command of her home state was telling for the Waratahs lock, fresh off her 25th cap for the club.<\/p>\n
“It means a lot to me. I started my professional rugby career here at the Waratahs. They’ve given a lot to me as a club and to my family and supported me throughout my career so I’m incredibly grateful,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a great bunch of girls, and I think it’s something that, you know, you don’t ever really expect, but it’s nice to have the title.”<\/p>\n
Leaney and the Waratahs remain on guard for a fired-up Force outfit, coming in on a high following their last minute winner over the Queensland Reds at home.<\/p>\n
“They have a really good program over in WA and we know they’re a really hard-working team that like to fight for the whole 80 minutes so we know that they won’t go away easy,” she added.<\/p>\n
“They’ll fight really hard and we’re looking forward to a good battle.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New NSW Waratahs skipper Kaitlan Leaney believes the best is yet to come as the defending champions look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,32951,33008,760,85,131635],"class_list":["post-761041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nsw-waratahs","tag-nsw-waratahs-women","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761041","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=761041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}