{"id":633490,"date":"2026-10-17T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633490\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:52:13","slug":"eight-try-australia-send-scotland-to-eighth-straight-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633490\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-try Australia send Scotland to eighth straight defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WXV Global Series<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia (35) 56<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tries: Merlo, Stewart, Miller (2), Whitaker (2), Ellis, Karpani Cons: Wood (6), Moleka (2)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland (5) 12<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tries: Buchanan, Malcolm Con: Nelson<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland suffered a chastening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/match\/EVP5290089\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-try defeat<\/a> by Australia in their WXV Global Series match in Sydney. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the visitors&#8217; eighth straight defeat, four of them in the new competition, having lost to Canada, New Zealand and the Aussies in their home ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia have two victories, both against the Scots, after losing to England and France, their 30-10 win in Edinburgh having lifted them above their hosts in the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As they sought revenge, the Scots, under caretaker head coach Dave Butcher, lost Sarah Bonar to illness shortly before kick-off and the Harlequins lock was replaced with Bristol Bears&#8217; Hollie Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But they started brightly, with Katie Buchanan collecting the ball on the wing, beating a defender and sprinting over the line to give them a fifth-minute lead in her first international start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia, though, responded with five tries by half-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WXV Global Series Australia (35) 56 Tries: Merlo, Stewart, Miller (2), Whitaker (2), Ellis, Karpani Cons: Wood (6),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-633490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633490","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=633490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}