{"id":80042,"date":"2025-08-19T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80042\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:50:08","slug":"roos-eager-to-get-going-at-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80042\/","title":{"rendered":"Roos eager to get going at Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alongside her teammates Ayanda Malinga, Eloise Webb, Zintle Mpupha and Sizophila Solontsi, Roos has played Brazil four times in the 2024 HSBC SVNS series.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the South Americans were victorious in three of those encounters, despite brave efforts from especially Roos, who scored some specacular tries against the team in yellow.<\/p>\n

This time however, playing in a different code, Roos said she is determined that a different result will follow as the Bok Women went through their paces at their training base in Kettering, a short drive from Sunday\u2019s match venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose matches were very close with one score or try that made the difference, it was only in one of those defeats where we were outplayed,\u201d said Roos.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo yes, I definately believe we can give it back to them this time, different code or not. Rugby remains rugby and we want to win when we play for our country, especially at a Rugby World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roos said the fact that almost 80% of their sevens regulars are in the Brazilian RWC squad prove their worth.<\/p>\n

\"Nadine<\/p>\n

Nadine Roos in action against Brazil at the HSBC SVNS Perth in January 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose speedsters are really fast and adding to that, their playmakers have the ability to provide them ball in space,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we allow that on Sunday, we will be in trouble. I told my teammates that we need to kill their time and space on the ball. If we get shoulders on bodies and take the space away, they will not be as effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bok utility back has now settled in a scrumhalf role and while she might not have as much leeway as in the sevens code \u2013 where she has scored a number of long-range individual tries \u2013 Roos still backs herself to give it a go.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love scoring against them in fifteens as well,\u201d she said. \u201cI scored some good tries against them in sevens and it will be nice to repeat that on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving said that, some those sevens tries came thanks to my teammates as well, and I would need their help again. It will have to be a team effort from us on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

The squad will train with Japan on Wednesday as they step up the intensity for the weekend. The Springbok Women\u2019s match-23 will be announced on Friday and all 32 players are currently available for selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alongside her teammates Ayanda Malinga, Eloise Webb, Zintle Mpupha and Sizophila Solontsi, Roos has played Brazil four times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-80042","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\/80042","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=80042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}