'Greatest upset' in rugby history looms for Wallaroos

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Morgan Turinui says a triumph for the Wallaroos successful their Rugby World Cup quarter-final clash with the Red Roses could beryllium the biggest upset crossed the women's and men's crippled ever.

Australia volition look England connected Sunday astatine 11.30am (AEDT) astatine Auckland's Waitakere Stadium successful what promises to beryllium a titanic clash.

As the world's No.1 team, England is undoubtedly the favourite. Alongside New Zealand and Canada, they are 1 of 3 unbeaten teams successful this year's Rugby World Cup to date.

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Australia presently ranks sixth successful the world. They went down to New Zealand successful their archetypal excavation lucifer but took choky wins implicit Scotland and then Wales.

While Turinui said astir of the quarter-final clashes person logical outcomes, the forthcoming match-up betwixt Australia and England remains an intriguing encounter.

"Australia has the toughest duty determination is, playing England," Turinui said connected Stan Sport's Women's Rugby World Cup Weekly.

"It doesn't substance what — sevens, 10s, 15s, eights, immoderate you privation to telephone it, this is the toughest duty successful the satellite of rugby.

"If Australia tin transmission the archetypal 30 minutes that they played successful that archetypal crippled against New Zealand, the strength required there, the unit astatine breakdown that volition beryllium required to enactment England disconnected their game, and much than anything, maul defence.

"If you're the Wallaroos, it's going to beryllium 40 minutes of businesslike maul defence, due to the fact that that's however England volition make a borderline connected the scoreboard against our Wallaroos. If they infringe and walk excessively overmuch clip successful their 22, past the juggernaut that is England and their guardant battalion volition beryllium excessively good.

"If Australia tin enactment velocity successful the game, tin enactment unit into the game, past arsenic we saw with New Zealand – nary squad deals with unit arsenic they did successful circular 1 – possibly it could beryllium the top upset there's ever been successful a women's World Cup and it would beryllium close up determination with immoderate of the men's World Cup upsets."

In the different 3 matches, Turinui expects France to topple Italy, New Zealand to decision Wales, and Canada to bushed the USA.

Turinui said Australia is successful the champion signifier ever, and though the mostly semi-professional squad is inactive making sacrifices, helium believes the champion is yet to come.

"It's the champion twelvemonth Australian women's rugby has ever had successful presumption of putting fund toward it," Turinui explained.

"Yes, we privation to beryllium spending clip together. Yes, we privation much successful presumption of trying to make an situation wherever it's easier for the women to marque the sacrifices they person to marque to play for Australia. It's the champion twelvemonth ever.

"In the future, we privation to look backmost and spell 'Well, this was the lowest basal and we pushed up from that,' of course. But being together, playing a batch of trial matches together, the concern has been significant, yes, it needs to get better, we support saying it, but it sets them up to person a marquee performance.

"It's a truly choky squad now. They've spent clip together. It looks similar a blessed group. We've seen bits of improvement, tin they spell to the level required to bushed England? Let's find out."

Coverage of Australia's head-to-head clash with England astatine 11.30am (AEDT) connected Sunday volition beryllium unrecorded and ad-free connected Stan Sport.

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