{"id":267336,"date":"2025-07-16T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267336\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:12:09","slug":"wru-womens-rugby-boss-belinda-moore-hints-at-staying-beyond-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267336\/","title":{"rendered":"WRU women&#8217;s rugby boss Belinda Moore hints at staying beyond World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales are due to fly to Australia this weekend ahead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c9vkm9n2dnxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-Test tour against the Wallaroos<\/a> in Brisbane and Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eyebrows were raised over both the expense and timing of a demanding tour so close to the crucial opening World Cup game against Scotland on 23 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Moore explained it is part of a reciprocal arrangement after Australia toured Wales ahead of WXV2 last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They [Australia] are picking up a lot of the costs when we&#8217;re on the ground and we&#8217;ve got support from World Rugby as well,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Although it&#8217;s a long way to go, it&#8217;s actually a cost-effective solution and gives us a chance to play some really good opposition, which is important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In terms of recovery, we&#8217;re back here very early on in August, which gives us three weeks before the tournament starts and longer than the southern hemisphere teams have when they come over here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People will still reckon New Zealand will be competitive, so I think we&#8217;ll be good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales are due to fly to Australia this weekend ahead of a two-Test tour against the Wallaroos in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-267336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114864504540980316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}