42-22 defeat at WXV1 in New Zealand<\/a> two years ago.<\/p>\n“They are a very physical team, they are second in the world, they are up there with some of the favourites to win this tournament,” said Crabb.<\/p>\n
“But for me personally and I think as a team, that makes us really excited, because, yes, we are the underdogs, but we have also got nothing to lose.<\/p>\n
“We have got everything to gain because we are really disappointed in the way that we portrayed ourselves as a team at the weekend. <\/p>\n
“We have not put all the hard work in that we have, and got to the place where we’re at as a team, to not show that when it matters most on the pitch.<\/p>\n
“We have to find a way to get to those quarter-finals and this weekend is going to play a huge role for that, so we’ve just got to go after it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada are tipped to challenge tournament hosts England for the title. Wales have not beaten them since their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-97840","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\/97840","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=97840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}