Wallaroos 'peaking' ahead of RWC knockouts

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Former Wallaroos skipper Grace Hamilton believes her broadside is uncovering its feet astatine the close clip arsenic a Rugby World Cup quarter-finals qualification beckons.

After their mammoth 41-17 decision to New Zealand successful their archetypal Pool A fixture, Australia bounced backmost with a come-from-behind 14-12 triumph implicit Scotland.

Australia volition look Wales, who were pumped by New Zealand 56-12 successful their past match, this Saturday astatine 12.15pm (AEDT).

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While Australia's 2 performances to day person been poles apart, there's crushed for optimism.

Against New Zealand, they came retired firing successful the archetypal 30 minutes to pb 17-0 earlier being tally down. Against Scotland, a 14-12 win, they came connected beardown precocious and defended good throughout.

"We made it pugnacious for ourselves, but we are ace excited for a win," said Hamilton.

"We person been waiting a agelong clip for that and I'm gladsome we are peaking and peaking astatine the close time, it's wherever we request to be.

"We were against the upwind successful the archetypal fractional truthful that wasn't successful our favour and Scotland truly came astatine us.

"They stopped our momentum good and we couldn't get a rotation connected and that's however we privation to play, we privation to play fast.

"At the extremity of the time we cognize we person the endowment and we cognize we person the combat and each the messaging this crippled has been immoderate it takes to triumph this crippled and I americium precise arrogant of the girls for what we achieved retired there."

Wallaroos yet interruption Scotland defence astatine RWC

Australia tin suffer their lucifer against Wales and inactive conceivably marque it done to the quarter-finals, pending results of different matches successful different pools.

Winning guarantees them a spot successful the knock-out stages.

The situation of Wales isn't mislaid connected Hamilton, who said combining the champion of their performances implicit New Zealand and Scotland volition marque for the cleanable match.

"We request to marque that quarter-final and I inactive person religion that we volition marque that quarter-final," she explained.

"Wales volition beryllium tough, we person seen them play, we saw that they played for 83 minutes past week.

"For us, it's each astir our process and what we request to get amended astatine and determination are decidedly areas that we request to amended connected especially.

"We started good against New Zealand and we didn't commencement good [against Scotland] truthful it's each astir putting those pieces together."

Australia plays Wales connected Saturday astatine 12.15pm (AEDT).

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