Wallaroos through to Women's Rugby World Cup QF despite England loss

[ad_1] A 47-7 defeat to England has did not dampen the spirits of Australia's rugby ladies, who're marching to the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals.

The Wallaroos needed to keep away from a 76-point defeat by the rampant event favourites to ebook their place within the final eight and their wonderful, ferocious first-half show in Brighton on Saturday (Sunday AEST) successfully ensured that grim prospect was by no means actually on the playing cards.

As an alternative, in entrance of a 30,000-strong crowd together with the Princess of Wales, the Australians have been left celebrating the prospect to trigger an upset in subsequent Saturday's (Sunday AEST) quarterfinal towards Canada, the world's quantity two facet who had earlier overwhelmed Scotland 40-19 in Exeter to keep up their unbeaten document.

"We're actually proud of the efficiency — particularly in that first half, we actually gave it to them — and we're simply going to stay with these positives," mentioned skipper Siokapesi Palu, who led her Australians excellently.

The Wallaroos went into the ultimate sport of the pool realizing precisely what they needed to do.

The US wanted to beat Samoa by as many factors as doable to have an opportunity of advancing, and so they beat the Pacific nation 60-0 in York.

Led by a four-try efficiency from Freda Tafuna, the Individuals led by 27-0 at half-time, and went on to attain 10 tries with out reply.

Nevertheless, Australia's large factors differential lead meant the Wallaroos would have needed to lose by 76 factors towards England, with out scoring a bonus level, to overlook out.

Regardless of coach John Mitchell, the previous All Blacks' mentor, declaring that England aimed to be ruthless hunters, the hosts have been shocked by how the Wallaroos got here at them early on with hooker Adiana Talakai ploughing over for the sixth-minute strive from a driving maul that basically eased their job.

The Aussies wanted to attain 4 tries, or lose by lower than seven factors, to earn the bonus level that may have assured their development and for the primary half-an-hour, that did not even appear wholly out of the query as they nonetheless led the world's primary facet, who now have not misplaced a Check in a record-equalling 30 matches.

That very good opening, that includes actual resilience in defence and enterprise in assault, proved completely important of their bid to make sure their factors distinction ended up 35 factors higher than the Individuals, despite the fact that there felt an inevitability that England, after a scrappy opening, would ultimately begin sporting them down.

England lastly hit the entrance with three tries earlier than the break from Jess Breach — on her fiftieth look — Abbie Ward and Sadia Kabeya, and as Australia started to tire amid the wave of assaults from the hosts after halftime, additional scores adopted from Kabeya, a double from Kelsey Clifford and Sarah Bern.

But regardless of conceding seven tries in complete on the Brighton & Hove Albion Stadium, the facet coached by former England participant Jo Yapp by no means actually seemed like conceding the avalanche of factors that may have consigned them to an early exit.

Yapp, who's leaving as coach after the event, mentioned: "I do not know if the scoreline was a good reflection, however within the second half we misplaced momentum, we misplaced a few key set-pieces after which we have been on the again foot. Credit score to England, they capitalised on that.

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"However the constructive factor is we created alternatives, obtained subject place, simply we could not execute. I am pleased with the primary half, the best way we took it to them."