{"id":309411,"date":"2025-08-01T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309411\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:59:11","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-2025-marlie-packer-emotional-on-return-as-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309411\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025: Marlie Packer ’emotional’ on return as captain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off the field has also been busy for Packer, with the vice-captain proposing to England team-mate Rosie Galligan.<\/p>\n

A city break to Bath a few months ago was where Galligan spotted the ring she wanted, but Packer said it was too expensive and used the upcoming World Cup as an excuse.<\/p>\n

Packer then proceeded to sneakily call up and secure the purchase.<\/p>\n

“That same week I got it sized up and ordered,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I was going to do it on the week we had off after Treviso. I spoke to her dad and the rest of the family about coming over on that day.<\/p>\n

“She went and got her nails done and asked if she minded if she got her hair done. It was all set up perfectly.<\/p>\n

“I did it where we first started speaking at a reservoir just outside Guildford.<\/p>\n

“She was on her way and I texted her to meet me at this location. It was perfect and it couldn’t have been done any better. She was super surprised.”<\/p>\n

Upcoming family weddings in 2026 has left 2027 as the likely wedding date, but Packer is aware of the British and Irish Lions’ first women’s tour that September<\/a>, to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Galligan, 28, is in her prime years and will likely be in the mix for a squad spot.<\/p>\n

However, Parker, who is 36 in October, is not convinced she will be in contention by then.<\/p>\n

“With the back row at the Red Roses and at every other nation, I think I would only be going to the Lions if I was water girl,” Packer joked. “I would want to be there in some capacity, but playing in 2027 there will be some really incredible world class players.<\/p>\n

“Rosie might want to play in it, so it [the wedding] will probably be after the Lions tour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off the field has also been busy for Packer, with the vice-captain proposing to England team-mate Rosie Galligan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-309411","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\/114953870606230590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309411","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=309411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}