{"id":91359,"date":"2025-08-25T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91359\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:53:07","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-scotland-have-not-been-treated-respectfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91359\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup: Scotland have not been treated &#8216;respectfully&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When news of the contract issues emerged in June, Scotland Rugby chief executive Alex Williamson said the situation would be resolved before the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Scotland wing Rhona Lloyd told the media at the World Cup squad announcement that the agreement reached has resulted in &#8220;more than half&#8221; of the 32-player squad being left without contracts after the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Rachel Malcolm described the situation as &#8220;very disruptive&#8221; with BBC rugby union reporter Sara Orchard describing it as &#8220;something that will follow them around&#8221; and an unwanted distraction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daley-McLean, who led England to victory at the 2014 tournament, is firmly behind the Scotland players, who face Fiji in their second pool game on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No players should be put in that position by their union,&#8221; she went on. &#8220;You want Scotland to thrive and you want people like Rachel Malcolm to go on and have an awesome World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The issue is should these conversations be had six weeks out from a World Cup and putting their girls in a position where they are the ones who have to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He [Alex Williamson] is not coming out and being interviewed, it is Rachel Malcolm who is having to come out and asked to defend the decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When news of the contract issues emerged in June, Scotland Rugby chief executive Alex Williamson said the situation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-91359","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\/91359","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=91359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}