'Disappointed' Wallaroos takes learnings after Black Ferns rout

REACTION: Wallaroos head coach Jo Yapp says her side will take learnings from their defeat to the Black Ferns.

She expressed her disappointment after her sides’s 0-62 loss at the hands of the Black Ferns at Ballymore Stadium in Brisbane on Sunday.

” On the whole pretty disappointed, but a huge amount of learnings to take from it around our game management as well”

Captain Michaela Leonard shared her coach’s views:

“Definitely disappointed with that result and again because it’s not the way we wanted to play and it wasn’t a reflection of the skill and the effort we’ve been putting in and what we can demonstrate out there”

The Black Ferns scored 10 unanswered tries with wing Katelyn Vaha’akolo dotting down four times.

Black Ferns Director of Rugby Allan Bunting praised his side’s effort and feels there are room for improvement as they build towards the 2025 World Cup.

” We were solid in our set-piece, there’s always a little bit of room to improve in that, but I think when our bench came on too and raise the bar a bit too which was really pleasing.”

He added: “Really happy with our defence today, we were solid and there’s some stuff we’ve been working on…the areas of our game where we wanted to grow and it was really pleasing to see some shifts.”

When asked about the consistency and the importance of it heading into the World Cup he responded:

“It’s important to see what were doing as moving in the right direction and we’re going to Twickenham in a few months time and we’re really excited about that and it will be the next challenge but the way the ladies are going at the moment they’re really excited about how we play and that’s where we’re focussed for now and obviously World Cup will come after that.”

Captain Ruahei Demant praised the squad’s loose forward depth as well as their ability to play tight and loose.

“Think ‘Buns’ and our coaches have a bit of a headache there with our loose forward trio, it seems that every single trio they put together is illusive and dangerous which is so exciting for the growth and the depth of that position, we’ve got players at six and eight and even seven who are devastating ball carriers and love that physicality – conformational style of rugby, but then you see them getting room to open up on edges and wide spaces and they show you a different style of play that not a lot of people get to see as they do a lot of work in the middle as well,so it makes our job real easy as backs.”