a former head coach of the All Blacks<\/a>, added: \u201cIf the weather\u2019s going to continue that way then we\u2019ll still be building pressure in that area.<\/p>\n\u201cBut we do have the ability to play any particular way. Who knows which way we\u2019ll go?\u201d<\/p>\n
Hannah Botterman, who has been restored to England\u2019s front row for the semifinal in Bristol after recovering from a back spasm, stressed the importance of set-pieces.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we do our job in the scrum, line-out, maul, then the backs understand that that gives them the best platform to play off,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Botterman\u2019s selection is one of four changes to the team that overpowered Scotland, with fullback Ellie Kildunne, first five-eighths Zoe Harrison and lock Abbie Ward all in the starting XV.<\/p>\n
The return of Kildunne, the current world player of the year, who missed the quarter-final after suffering concussion, is a major boost.<\/p>\n
\u201cEllie\u2019s intuitive and can break a game. She\u2019s not a person you hold to structure,\u201d said Mitchell.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat stride of hers, when she gets into a one-on-one or creates a half a metre of space, she\u2019s very difficult to handle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve demonstrated over the last three years that we can play any particular way,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1443,9092,1320,10542,3039,29242,1634,29236,19134,1221,5126,5430,3025,111,139,69,29241,17216,29239,29240,29237,6327,3048,5500,213,23371,29238,4412,1361,2834,377],"class_list":["post-30189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-about","tag-against","tag-coach","tag-cup","tag-defends","tag-effective","tag-england","tag-englands","tag-forward","tag-france","tag-john","tag-mitchell","tag-most","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pack","tag-powerful","tag-qualms","tag-relying","tag-routeone","tag-rugby","tag-said","tag-semifinal","tag-sports","tag-sundays","tag-tactics","tag-teams","tag-that","tag-womens","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}