{"id":164637,"date":"2025-09-23T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:47:11","slug":"yellowknife-gathering-planned-for-canada-in-rugby-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164637\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowknife gathering planned for Canada in rugby World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellowknife Exiles rugby club and Monkey Tree pub are inviting people to join them on Saturday morning to watch the women\u2019s rugby World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>As the game takes place in London on Saturday afternoon, Yellowknifers will need to be up bright and early to catch the game that morning. The pub doors will open at 8:30am with kick-off at 9am.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is playing in the final against England after beating six-time champions New Zealand 34\u201319 in the semi-finals last week.<\/p>\n<p>England is currently ranked number one in the world, but Canada\u2019s team has been doing well in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadians took home a World Cup silver medal in 2014 \u2013 losing to England in that year\u2019s final \u2013 and have made it into the semi-finals multiple times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement.<br \/><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTYyNSwxNSw2MA==\" href=\"https:\/\/cndaclinic.janeapp.com\/#\/day-spa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TNA-2.png\" width=\"300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement.<br \/><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTc5MCwxNSw2MA==\" href=\"https:\/\/wscc.nt.ca\/SafetyDance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4834-WSCC-Safety-Dance-Advertising-Spread.jpg\" width=\"300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had the privilege of training alongside some of these incredible players, and I can tell you first-hand just how strong and determined they are on the field,\u201d Holly Jones, a Yellowknife Exiles board member, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing them make it to the World Cup final is inspiring \u2013 not just for rugby players, but for athletes across Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s final is expected to take place in front of a sold-out crowd of 82,000, which would set a new world record for a women\u2019s rugby match.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has never won the women\u2019s rugby World Cup. <\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t make it to the Monkey Tree, the final will be shown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/rugby\/article\/canada-tries-for-first-ever-rugby-world-cup-title-against-england-on-tsn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live on TSN<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yellowknife Exiles rugby club and Monkey Tree pub are inviting people to join them on Saturday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,27531,35914,7693],"class_list":["post-164637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports-and-recreation","tag-tv-film","tag-yellowknife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}