NORTHAMPTON, England — Pink Roses head coach John Mitchell says there’s nonetheless room enchancment as England ran up a file rating of their 92-3 dismantling of Samoa at Franklin’s Gardens within the Girls’s World Cup on Saturday.
England scored 14 tries as they broke earlier data each for successful margin and factors scored in a Girls’s Rugby World Cup match. The Pink Roses have been much-changed with Mitchell making 13 alterations from the beginning lineup that ended up defeating the USA 69-7 of their event opener, however there was no let-up in England’s depth and ruthlessness.
The victory all however books their place within the knockout phases of a event the place they’re overwhelming favourites to carry the trophy come Sept. 27.
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Mitchell was delighted with a number of performances, no much less the 27-point haul from Helena Rowland at fly-half and the hat trick from Jess Breach, however he nonetheless sees some areas the place England can step issues up. One part of the match was the tip of the primary half and begin of the second 40 the place the Pink Roses made just a few, uncommon, errors.
“There may be at all times one thing to repair on this recreation,” Mitchell mentioned. “If you will mark it exhausting you’ll ask why we did not construct stress throughout that interval and our fundamentals allow us to down. However we would not be human if we did not have one thing to repair.”
“Jess was superb at her one-on-one duels. She will discover half a metre, and she or he’ll burn you,” Mitchell added. “She’s assured and she or he’s performed a variety of work to place herself in that place. When she’s like that, she’s excellent.
“Helena was excellent. She has obtained a fantastic ability set. She probed the sport effectively. The women fed off her route and she or he directed the assault rather well to permit us to go ahead. She will hunt weak point by way of her tempo. It was an impressive instance of a triple risk.”
Rowland added: “I’m very happy, the situations weren’t in our favour and we tailored to that. We performed some good rugby. With a squad that had so many adjustments, it felt actually cohesive.
“It is a respectable end up contemplating the situations, we may hear every fan and it actually does make a distinction.”
