{"id":85765,"date":"2025-08-21T20:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85765\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:09:19","slug":"rugby-world-cup-2025-wales-ready-to-prove-a-point-in-scotland-game-co-captain-kate-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85765\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup 2025: Wales ready to prove a point in Scotland game &#8211; co-captain Kate Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynn welcomes the competitiveness in his 32-player squad, admitting he had some selection headaches before naming his team for Saturday&#8217;s opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s where we&#8217;re at at the moment. It&#8217;s really nice, the competitiveness that we&#8217;ve got in the squad,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today it got a little bit spicy in training and that&#8217;s how I think it should be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re in a World Cup and it&#8217;s the biggest World Cup, so it&#8217;s really exciting and the girls are just thriving on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Lynn said there is still more to come from his side, he believes they have made progress in the collision area over the summer, with Ben Flower coming into his backroom staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re on the right track. I set targets after the Six Nations to the players. They went away and have come back in better shape,&#8221; Lynn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The big emphasis is making sure that we can play with the intensity that I want us to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been driving scenarios into the girls&#8230; hopefully there will be some scenarios on Saturday that we&#8217;ve done already and fingers crossed we will come out on top.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lynn welcomes the competitiveness in his 32-player squad, admitting he had some selection headaches before naming his team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-85765","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\/85765","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=85765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}