{"id":429646,"date":"2025-09-16T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429646\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:19:13","slug":"england-counting-on-pyjamas-and-pampering-ahead-of-le-crunch-rosie-galligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429646\/","title":{"rendered":"England counting on pyjamas and pampering ahead of \u2018Le Crunch\u2019 \u2013 Rosie Galligan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Roses enter \u2018Le Crunch\u2019 as red-hot favourites but, mindful of the \u201cwar\u201d to come, they will switch off from rugby during an evening of self-indulgence at their team hotel in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re actually having a pamper night on Wednesday where we\u2019re all bringing our own face masks and wearing pyjamas down to our team room to watch a film together,\u201d Galligan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s those moments that really bond us and bring us together so that when we\u2019re on the field, we\u2019re in a war together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.69418126.jpg\" alt=\"England\u2019s Rosie Galligan secures line out ball against South Africa\" data-title=\"England v South Africa \u2013 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup \u2013 Pool C \u2013 Waitakere Stadium\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Brett Phibbs\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Rosie Galligan will be back in more familiar mode come Saturday (Brett Phibbs\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>England have won their last 18 matches against France dating back to 2018, but in their last two meetings on home soil they just held off mighty comebacks from their Six Nations rivals.<\/p>\n<p>They won 38-33 in 2023 and 43-42 in 2025, but on both occasions they crumbled having built impressive leads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLe Crunch is the best and it\u2019s probably similar for the French. When you go away, that\u2019s when it\u2019s really special,\u201d second-row Galligan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always quite a hostile environment when we go over to France and likewise when the French come here. It seems to be that they come alive and they always want to beat us on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just another rugby game, but that French-English rivalry is something you don\u2019t take for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Roses enter \u2018Le Crunch\u2019 as red-hot favourites but, mindful of the \u201cwar\u201d to come, they will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-429646","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115215831263677527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429646","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=429646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}