{"id":299746,"date":"2025-12-05T03:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299746\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:14:10","slug":"sione-tuipulotu-explains-why-this-rwc-will-be-different-for-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299746\/","title":{"rendered":"Sione Tuipulotu explains why this RWC will be different for Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sione Tuipulotu is excited about leading Scotland<\/a> on their \u201cjourney\u201d towards what he hopes will be a fruitful World Cup in Australia<\/a> in just under two years.<\/p>\n

The Melbourne-born captain will be 30 when the global showpiece kicks off in his homeland in October 2027.<\/p>\n

Scotland learned on Wednesday that they will face Ireland, Portugal<\/a> and Uruguay<\/a> in their pool, and Tuipulotu is intent on ensuring Gregor Townsend\u2019s side are in the best possible shape when they head Down Under.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does feel strange talking about it, with it being so far away, but I suppose it\u2019s something we have to start thinking about because that is the path that\u2019s been laid out for us now,\u201d said the British and Irish Lions<\/a> tourist, who got his first taste of a World Cup in France<\/a> two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole focus now turns to the Six Nations<\/a> and all the rugby that we\u2019re going to play before that World Cup in Australia, but I think that is the journey now.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Investec Champions Cup<\/p>\n

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Sale <\/p>\n

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Glasgow <\/p>\n

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\u201cYou go into a World Cup to show everything that you\u2019ve learned over the last World Cup cycle. It\u2019s right there for our group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of rugby to be played between now and then, and it\u2019s up to myself and the playing group to make sure we\u2019re in the best position to go and have our best World Cup ever in a couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuipulotu believes Scotland\u2019s World Cup prospects will be enhanced by increased exposure to Southern Hemisphere teams in the new Nations Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s something that we probably need, in terms of playing top-level opposition every single year,\u201d said Tuipulotu. \u201cI know we get that in the Six Nations, but I think experience against some of the Southern Hemisphere teams matters when you go to a World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be experienced against the Southern Hemisphere, because for the last two World Cups, they\u2019ve been the teams to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuipulotu is optimistic that Scotland will also benefit from a recent autumn series that left them reeling after they lost to both New Zealand<\/a> and Argentina<\/a> from positions of strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still angry,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd why shouldn\u2019t I be angry? I care about winning for Scotland and I know the players do as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy feeling coming out of those two games is that what we\u2019re chasing is closer than what we think.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s important that we take the lessons that we needed to learn after that Argentina game specifically. And I think maybe that (collapse from 21-0 up) needed to happen for us to address what\u2019s possibly been either holding us back or also just be realistic and accept our flaws.<\/p>\n

\u201cStand there as a team, as players, as individuals and say what I did wrong as a captain or what we did wrong as a playing group for us not to get those results. And I felt like we did that in the last week and looked at each other honestly. We can\u2019t prove that that\u2019s solved anything until we get to the Six Nations.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ve got to go show everyone that we have \u2013 not necessarily that we have learned, but that we have grown.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sione Tuipulotu is excited about leading Scotland on their \u201cjourney\u201d towards what he hopes will be a fruitful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-299746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}