{"id":380522,"date":"2025-08-28T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/380522\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:08:10","slug":"marlie-packer-to-lead-much-changed-england-in-world-cup-match-against-samoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/380522\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlie Packer to lead much-changed England in World Cup match against Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe Aldcroft, England\u2019s captain for the tournament, is stood down as part of squad rotation for the pool stage, which ends against Australia on September 6.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back to it \ud83c\udf39<\/p>\n<p>John Mitchell has named his Red Roses to face Samoa in our second game of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RWC2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RWC2025<\/a> \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WearTheRose?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WearTheRose<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedRoses?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RedRoses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Red Roses (@RedRosesRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedRosesRugby\/status\/1961051178596290685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Emily Scarratt won her 119th cap off the bench in the 69-7 victory over USA last Friday but is missing from the 23 to take on the Islanders at Franklin\u2019s Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Wing Claudia Moloney-MacDonald and fly-half Helena Rowland return from injury to make their first appearances of the World Cup, while tournament debutant Jade Shekells partners Megan Jones in midfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been in our planning to give everyone game time over the first two pool matches and, bar Holly Aitchison, we\u2019ve been able to execute that with this selection,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur new combination want to make each other proud and build on our performance against USA in our opening match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a great atmosphere for them at one of the most traditional rugby grounds in the country. They\u2019re all excited to get out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Aldcroft, England\u2019s captain for the tournament, is stood down as part of squad rotation for the pool&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-380522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380522","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=380522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}