{"id":76638,"date":"2025-08-18T04:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76638\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:57:06","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-wales-captain-kate-williams-sympathises-with-scotlands-contract-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76638\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Wales captain Kate Williams sympathises with Scotland&#8217;s contract woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland are due to meet Wales in their Pool B opener on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a game which could decide which team makes it through to the quarter-finals, with Canada expected to top the group and both sides tipped to beat Fiji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s really poor timing for them, that they&#8217;re going through this now,&#8221; said Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I guess our timing was possibly a bit better,&#8221; she added, with Wales&#8217; woes coming prior to WXV2 rather than the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And while Williams says she and her team mates &#8220;feel their pain&#8221;, there will be no time for sympathy in Salford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are here to play rugby and we&#8217;re here to win that Test match,&#8221; said the Gloucester-Hartpury flanker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know how important it is, so it&#8217;s just going to be who&#8217;s better on the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland are due to meet Wales in their Pool B opener on Saturday. It is a game which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-76638","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\/76638","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=76638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}