{"id":934221,"date":"2026-10-19T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934221\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:10:09","slug":"keeley-nizza-australian-jillaroos-rugby-league-world-cup-nrlw-season-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934221\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeley Nizza, Australian Jillaroos, Rugby League World Cup, NRLW season 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jillaroos rake Keeley Nizza said the Jillaroos were looking forward to adding to the latest chapter in the Australia v England rivalry when the two sides face off in Perth on Saturday.<\/p>\n

No matter the sport, whenever the two countries face off, bragging rights go on the line and that remains no different on Saturday night at HBF Park.<\/p>\n

And despite the lopsided scoreline the last time these two sides met in Las Vegas in 2025, Nizza was expecting a competitive match up, despite expectations being high for another Jillaroos victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe definitely know about the rivalry,\u201d Nizza said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we versed them in Las Vegas, and there was a big score line, (but) I think England are a very different team to that last (time).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know they’ll come out with a different intensity.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we are looking forward to it. \u2029<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we always know against England, it’s going to be a tough match.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely don’t think there’ll be a similar result, hopefully (there is), but we try not to look at the result, I think we just want to improve on our last game. \u2029<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s probably the biggest thing as individuals is to be a lot better, and then as a team, come together and keep improving week to week.<\/p>\n


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\u201cI feel like any time you put this jersey on, whether you’re playing or training, there’s an expectation that comes with it internally, so I think the expectation’s there anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there’s definitely been a bit more with outside looking in, but I feel like everybody in this position has high expectations of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jillaroos come into the game off the back of a 40-0 win over Samoa, with the scoreline not a true representative of how tough the match was against the rising women\u2019s rugby league nation. In their opening match, England secured a strong 70-6 win over northern rivals Wales.<\/p>\n


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Nizza was also looking forward to the Jillaroos being able to showcase some top tier women\u2019s rugby league to Perth audiences.<\/p>\n

The last time a number of the current Jillaroos played in the Western Australian capital was in 2020 at the NRLW Nines, with Nizza suiting up for a then star-studded St George Illawarra Dragons side that also featured Isabelle Kelly, Jess Sergis, Tiana Penitani Gray, Kezie Apps and Shaylee Bent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaven’t played here since I think it was 2019, we had some Nines over here, and there’s some awesome supporters that came out then.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, we get some back again from there and keep building.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jillaroos rake Keeley Nizza said the Jillaroos were looking forward to adding to the latest chapter in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-934221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934221","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=934221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}