Looking ahead to Wales’ World Cup opener, the enormity of the Scotland match is not lost on Phillips and her team-mates.<\/p>\n
Canada are tipped to top Pool B, which leaves Wales, Scotland and Fiji fighting it out for the runners-up spot to progress to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
“It is a repeat of our first game in New Zealand in 2021 and it is massive for us,” said Phillips.<\/p>\n
“All eyes are on that and we have to get our performance right to give us the momentum we need in the competition. <\/p>\n
“If we can get out of the pool stages then anything could happen. We could meet England in the quarter-finals in Bristol, which would be a massive event.”<\/p>\n
“Pre-season has been tough, but really good for us,” she added.<\/p>\n
“Ben Flower has come in to help us on the contact area, which was a massive work-on for us after the Six Nations. <\/p>\n
“The tour to Australia was much needed and we are now much closer as a group heading into the World Cup.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking ahead to Wales’ World Cup opener, the enormity of the Scotland match is not lost on Phillips…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-73137","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\/73137","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=73137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}