{"id":50428,"date":"2025-08-07T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50428\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:49:09","slug":"france-v-england-ellie-kildunne-returns-for-final-womens-rugby-world-cup-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50428\/","title":{"rendered":"France v England: Ellie Kildunne returns for final Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup warm-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wing Claudia Moloney-MacDonald and back Holly Aitchison, contenders for starting spots in a first-choice backline, are still managing injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emily Scarratt, who will be taking part in a fifth Rugby World Cup, is unavailable as she continues her recovery from a head injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Red Roses&#8217; World Cup campaign begins against the United States on Friday 22 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mitchell is more concerned about England&#8217;s performance about France than maintaining a winning run that stands at 26 matches and nearly three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We always respect France, but the scoreboard doesn&#8217;t matter this week, the performance does,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There will be some aspects of this performance that we can learn from and get better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France, who named sevens specialist Carla Neisen and uncapped trio Makarita Baleinadogo, Khoudedia Cissokho and Marie Morland in their 32-strong World Cup squad on Saturday, will announce their team to face England on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England: Kildunne; Dow, Jones, Heard, Breach; Harrison, Hunt; Botterman, Cokayne, Muir, Talling, Ward, Aldcroft, Kabeya, Matthews<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacements: Atkin-Davies, Clifford, Bern, Galligan, Feaunati, L Packer, Rowland, Sing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wing Claudia Moloney-MacDonald and back Holly Aitchison, contenders for starting spots in a first-choice backline, are still managing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-50428","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\/50428","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=50428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}