Physicality the focus for Canada – Wales lock Crabb

Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025: Wales vs. Canada

Salford Community Stadium Date: Saturday, August 30 Kick-off: 12:00 BST

Gwen Crabb, the forward for Wales, acknowledges that their team’s physicality was “nowhere near where it needed to be” in their opening Women’s Rugby World Cup match against Scotland.

The lock claims that Wales’ preparation for their Saturday game against Canada, a giant of the women’s game, will be the main focus this week because they know they must win to keep their slim quarter-final hopes alive.

In the debriefing on Monday, Wales head coach Sean Lynn and his team’s backroom staff tore up their 38-8 stuffing in Salford and promised some difficult and sincere exchanges.

According to Crabb, the process was beneficial.

How did you like how our warm-up went, players were asked? What time in the game do you believe we lost the game? How can we use those experiences to prevent another incident from occurring?

Crabb and Lynn both claimed that Wales’ lack of physicality was a common symptom, and that Lynn claimed that they were “bullied off the park” after the match.

According to Crabb, “I believe if we can get that right, it really feeds into every other aspect of our game.”

We must defeat that physicality fight before we can leave, advance, and engage in our structure.

How do we get ourselves in a situation where we travel to extremely dangerous areas with a really physical team? “We’ve done all the physical preparation.

England, host of the tournament, is expected to challenge Canada for the title.

Wales haven’t defeated them since their triumph in Cardiff in 2006, when they last met in a 42-22 defeat at WXV1 in New Zealand two years ago.

They are a very physical team, according to Crabb, who is second in the world and who is among the favorites to win this tournament.

However, for me personally and for the team as a whole, that really gets us excited because we are the underdogs but also have nothing to lose.

“We have everything to gain because we are extremely disappointed in how we presented ourselves as a team over the weekend.

We put in some of the effort necessary to get to where we are now as a team, but we did it when it was most important on the pitch.

Despite the disappointment, Crabb defended her efforts to soak up the atmosphere of the most recent Women’s Rugby World Cup.

The highest number in a Wales vs. Scotland game was 10 044, which was cheered by the entire Salford Community Stadium crowd.

When we were about to play the anthems, I tried to just take it in and embrace it as much as I could, she said, “having had a few days to reflect.”

“I’m trying to concentrate on the important thing that’s important right now, as part of my game, is taking no for granted and taking the time to enjoy those moments.”

I walked onto the pitch with goose bumps on. The stadium is full, and the scenery was incredible.