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England's women's rugby squad mightiness conscionable beryllium the champion sporting broadside you person ne'er heard of.

Since losing to New Zealand successful 2019, the Red Roses person peeled disconnected a singular 28 consecutive wins - a tier 1 Test rugby satellite grounds for men oregon women.

The men's satellite grounds is shared by the 2015-16 All Blacks and Eddie Jones' England broadside of 2015-17. Those teams some won 18 Tests successful a row.

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No surprises, then, that the afloat nonrecreational Red Roses are blistery favourites to triumph the Rugby World Cup successful New Zealand, aft demolishing South Africa 75-0 successful Sunday's last radical game.

And the squad tasked with stopping this England juggernaut successful the quarterfinals?

The Wallaroos, who are relying connected per diem payments astatine the tournament arsenic Rugby Australia targets the transportation of nonrecreational contracts by 2025.

"England vs Australia successful a World Cup - it doesn't get immoderate amended than that, does it? We don't get that galore opportunities to play teams from the confederate hemisphere for evident reasons truthful we were benignant of hoping we would play Australia – for nary different crushed than that," England manager Simon Middleton said up of Sunday's quarter-final astatine Waitakere Stadium (kick-off 11.30am AEDT).

"There is large past betwixt the sides and we haven't been capable to play them that often, I don't deliberation we person played them since 2017, truthful it'll beryllium great.

"It's a small spot of the chartless for america and we'll person to bash our homework connected them.

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"They are going truly good and we cognize it'll beryllium ferociously pugnacious so, yeah, we are truly excited by it."

The brutally businesslike Red Roses opened their World Cup run with a 84-19 romp implicit Fiji earlier edging France 13-7 successful a fierce encounter.

Australia, meanwhile, dropped their opening crippled against New Zealand, 41-17, earlier rebounding with a 14-12 triumph implicit Scotland and a 13-7 triumph against Wales.

With nary outer expectations of progressing to the semi-finals, the Wallaroos should play without fear.

They volition besides clasp an constituent of astonishment for the England machine.

"I'm ace excited," England flanker Marlie Packer said.

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"We don't get to play them that often and these are the types of teams you privation to beryllium playing astatine a World Cup.

"Nothing against the Six Nations teams but we play them each year. I privation to beryllium playing New Zealand, Australian, Canada due to the fact that we don't play them arsenic overmuch arsenic we'd similar to.

"I cognize the girls volition truly relish this week and we'll marque definite we look backmost astatine this crippled and get the positives but besides get learnings from it and get acceptable and get focused for Australia."

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