Veteran's plea after World Cup dream dashed

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Wallaroos seasoned Sharni Williams has called for caller fiscal enactment to boost her team's bid for a Rugby World Cup triumph successful 2025.

England were excessively bully for Australia successful the quarter-final, dominating an 80-minute contention played successful the toughest conditions of this year's tourney to triumph 41-5.

Just 2 of Australia's players are paid, nonrecreational athletes. The remainder enactment full-time oregon survey portion balancing their commitments with the nationalist team.

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Speaking aft the loss, Williams said much enactment is needed if Australia wants to triumph the adjacent variation of the Rugby World Cup successful England.

"The thread we enactment connected is professional, but for these amateurs – each azygous time they get to enactment it connected is simply a reward," said the seasoned Wallaroos centre.

"They are evidently playing for their country, but they're besides moving truly hard. We've got teachers, physios, each of that extracurricular of here.

"We came into this arsenic the underdogs and we're inactive underdogs wrong rugby," she added.

"Let's conscionable anticipation that we tin find immoderate sponsors retired there, find a spot of money, and reward these girls for what they're doing.

"We're retired determination sacrificing our bodies, putting bodies connected the enactment for each other, but chiefly for Australia.

"We emotion representing our state and athletics is monolithic successful Australia, truthful let's get astir them.

"It doesn't halt present thought, right? We truly request everyone astir Australia to proceed to enactment the Wallaroos.

"Not conscionable astatine World Cups, not conscionable astatine small events, but it's each that Super W arsenic well. it's truly important."

Rain pelted Waitakere Stadium for the lion's stock of the lucifer and England looked astatine location successful the gloomy conditions, scoring 7 tries to Australia's one.

Indeed, it was the Red Roses who opened the scoring successful the eighth infinitesimal of the lucifer with a effort nether the posts courtesy of skipper Sarah Hunter.

She celebrated becoming the astir capped subordinate for England crossed the women's and men's crippled with her 138th start.

Marlie Packer crossed the chalk successful the 30th and 38th infinitesimal to instrumentality England into halftime with a sizeable pb astatine 19-5.

The Wallaroos' lone points of the lucifer came conscionable abbreviated of the interruption erstwhile Emily Chancellor scored their "try of the tournament" disconnected the backmost of a scintillating passage.

It was the lone glimmer of anticipation for Australia aft England dominated possession and territory successful the archetypal half.

Having been outclassed successful the archetypal half, the Wallaroos looked improbable to endanger successful the second.

Abbie Ward opened the scoring successful the 43rd infinitesimal earlier Amy Cokayne scored successful the 53th and Alex Matthews successful the 65th.

England enactment nail successful Wallaroos coffin

The last nail successful the coffin came successful the 80th infinitesimal erstwhile different driving maul disconnected the backmost of a lineout earned Packer her 3rd effort of the match.

All told, England cruised location to a 41-5 win.

"Obviously beauteous gutted," said Williams.

"We emotion to win, but evidently that wasn't the lawsuit today. We did sorb a batch of pressure. We knew that England were going to travel retired firing and that's what they did.

"That archetypal half, we should beryllium truly arrogant of our efforts, but evidently couldn't clasp connected for that 80 minutes."

England volition look the victor of Saturday's different lucifer betwixt the USA and Canada portion New Zealand volition spell head-to-head with France successful the different semi-final.

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