'Sensational' RWC to change women's game forever

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Wallaroos skipper Shannon Parry believes bringing the women's Rugby World Cup to the confederate hemisphere for the archetypal clip has done wonders for the sport.

Since the inaugural tourney successful 1991 successful Wales, the Rugby World Cup has been held each 3 oregon 4 years successful the bluish hemisphere.

Scotland, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, England, France, and Ireland person each been big nations previously.

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New Zealand hosted this year's event, which was initially scheduled for 2021 but was postponed owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

England volition propulsion the 2025 variation earlier the 2029 tourney takes spot successful Australia.

"It's been perfectly sensational," said Parry of this year's event.

"I deliberation to bring the Rugby World Cup Down Under to New Zealand has been 1 of the champion decisions World Rugby has made.

"I deliberation to person it successful the confederate hemisphere for the archetypal clip and to truly spot the nationalist clasp it and clasp women's rugby has been fantastic.

"The grandstand was sold retired for our game, Australia versus England. It's truly bully to spot the nationalist is down it.

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"It's successful the streets; radical saying 'G'day, who are you guys playing this week?' erstwhile you're getting a java astatine the section java shop.

"It's truly large to spot they've embraced women's rugby and I deliberation it has truly enactment women's rugby connected the representation this year."

Parry's broadside went down to England successful their quarter-final match astatine a sodden Waitakere Stadium successful Auckland, 41-5.

It marked Australia's 2nd nonaccomplishment of the tourney aft New Zealand romped location to a 41-17 win successful their archetypal Pool A match.

Australia took choky wins implicit Scotland and Wales successful their different excavation matches to marque it to the knockout stages.

The proximity of this year's tourney successful New Zealand to Australia has had large benefits.

Favourable timezones person proved affirmative too, exposing the pinnacle of the women's crippled to a caller audience.

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For Parry, that bodes good for the aboriginal of the crippled Down Under.

"It's been massive. We've evidently had a batch of supporters travel crossed the ditch – household and friends arsenic well," said Parry.

"All the enactment backmost location has been perfectly immense. I think, for us, we're ever starring the mode for women's rugby.

"If anything, astatine the extremity of the day, if we tin promote 1 miss to prime up a footy shot and permission a bequest and beryllium relation models arsenic a Wallaroo, past I deliberation we've done our occupation astatine the extremity of the day."

The archetypal semi-final of this year's Rugby World Cup volition instrumentality spot betwixt Canada and favourites England connected Saturday, November 5 astatine 2.30pm (AEDT).

Hosts New Zealand volition look France the aforesaid time astatine 5.30pm (AEDT).

Both semi-final matches volition beryllium played astatine Eden Park arsenic volition the bronze medal lucifer and the last a week aboriginal connected Saturday, November 12.

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