Wales out of World Cup but England and Scotland progress
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ugo, Sara, Katy Daley-McLean and Philippa Tuttiett reflect on a mixed day for the home nations at the Women’s Rugby World Cup. England and Scotland are into the quarter-finals, but defeat to Canada sees Sean Lynn’s Wales eliminated. Despite their tournament ending after only two matches, are there still plenty of positives for Wales to draw upon? The 92-3 victory over Samoa was the Red Roses’ biggest in World Cup history, but did the moment of the game belong to the Pacific Islanders? And who from an England perspective shone in Northampton? We also discuss Scotland reaching the last eight of a World Cup for the first time since 2012.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Five Lives, Rugby Union Weekly. |
| 0:08.0 | Rugby Union Weekly, it's Saturday evening from Salford. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Philipa Tuttier with me, and we've been over at the Salford Community Stadium |
| 0:17.0 | because we've been watching Wales up against Canada and Scotland up against Fiji. |
| 0:21.5 | So as it stands, what do we know locked and loaded Saturday nights? Canada and Scotland are through, |
| 0:27.5 | which unfortunately means that Wells are out after just a couple of fixtures and plucky Fiji. |
| 0:33.5 | They're also saying goodbye to. Still one more round to go because Wales take on Fiji next Saturday. |
| 0:40.0 | What should be an enthralling counter. But, Philippa, let's start with Wells. Obviously significant disappointment, but let's roll it back. |
| 0:49.2 | At the start of the tournament, what was your expectations from this Welsh side, given the context of the group that they're in? Expectations were quarterfinals. Expectations were a much better performance than what we got in round one. Expectations was to see the Sean Lynn effect. You know, he'd been in, okay, granted, less than a year, but still enough time. And, yeah, round one, don't want to talk about round one anymore |
| 1:11.7 | it was just it was so bad but you know what everything we wanted they showed in round |
| 1:17.2 | two we wanted to see heart we wanted to see strength we wanted to see fight and they |
| 1:21.5 | absolutely did that and I think they can be proud of that performance I know it looks like a strong |
| 1:25.7 | score line they didn't get any points but they fought for everything against a very good Canadian team. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, because when you look at the scoreline, it's easy just to come to a conclusion and read the headline that they just got blown away. |
| 1:38.8 | They got battered and there were parts where they had to weather storms. |
| 1:41.8 | Like physically, the rain did chuck it down, and the Canadians |
| 1:44.7 | are very good. The context being that, and I'm not going to get sick of saying this, Canada |
| 1:49.9 | are the second best team on the planet. Quite simple as that. They're very good. They're one of the |
| 1:56.0 | dark horses, and that's a tag, I think, slowly going to erode because they can't stay undercover for too much longer. |
| 2:02.8 | But when you look at how well started and when you look at some of the resilience they showed in the |
| 2:07.5 | second half, that's why you can be sat here on a Saturday night saying you can be proud. |
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