Canada head coach Kévin Rouet hopes to deal with his workforce’s excessive turnover charge after their 42-0 win over Wales.
The victory has assured World Rugby second-ranked facet with a spot within the quarter-finals of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup.
A brace of tries for McKinley Hunt and scores from Alysha Corrigan, Asia Hogan-Rochester, Taylor Perry and Brittany Kassil catapulted Rouet’s win to a different bonus level triumph simply seven days after a 65-7 drubbing of Fiji in York.
It was not all one-way site visitors simply off the M60. Wales loved a lot the higher of the opening quarter-hour however couldn’t make their superior possession and alternatives matter.
Regardless of such a one-sided scoreline the Canadians made 27 turnovers, though Sean Lynn’s Wales had been unable to take advantage of the possession gifted to them.
With per week till his facet face-off with Scotland at Exeter’s Sandy Park, Rouet hopes to deal with a excessive error depend that on some other day might have resulted in a banana pores and skin.
“Maybe we have to chat about it, because it’s unusual errors that we did,” Rouet said. “It’s very simple mistakes that I think we just need to address sometimes.
“We know we play our game with risk, so we know we can expect that. Sometimes it is keeping trust in yourself and keep pushing the boundaries sometimes.
“I know if our offload game doesn’t go well, our set-piece will go right – so it’s like having this balance of your scrum penalty, a lineout maul and if we want to be boring we can be.
“But if we want to be exciting, we can be exciting. We need to find a balance every time.”
Despite acknowledging his team’s shortcomings, Rouet is aware of the intense desire for success that his side has at this tournament.
Masterminding the team’s rise to second in the world and, subsequently, their tag as potential World Cup winners, the Frenchman knows that there is more to come from Canada in the weeks to come.
With a place guaranteed in the last eight with week to go, they will still have to beat Scotland to top Pool B and gain a more favourable berth against Pool A’s runners-up.
As such there is no room for error and the work-ons are fairly straightforward for a side with such lofty ambitions at this tournament.
“Defensively it is simple,” Rouet said. “I think we give silly penalties away against Wales that gave them territory at the beginning of the game.
“We didn’t need to do that. Offensively, refine those simple mistakes, talking about why the communication wasn’t right, why the catching was not there – because if we catch those balls I think it could have been a way better performance from us.”
MasterCard Player of the Match, Sophie de Goede, loved one other dominant outing at lock ahead.
The 26-year-old was on the centre of wrestling again momentum from the Welsh with a lineout steal and concluded the competition with 20 carries, two turnovers and 12 factors from the kicking tee.
“We didn’t fairly begin the way in which that we needed and that full credit score to Wales,” de Goede stated. “We knew that their World Cup was probably on the road they usually had been going to return at us with lots of emotion and struggle.
“They did precisely as anticipated and I don’t assume we fairly had the composure in the beginning of the sport.
“We discovered methods to attain and preserve them off the board which was enormous. Then we had over 20 turnovers and we have to tackle that transferring ahead.”
