| England: (17) 29 |
| Tries: Packer, Kildunne, Muir, Reed, Breach Cons: Jones 2 |
| Canada: (5) 12 |
| Tries: Svoboda, Perry Con: De Goede |
England accomplished their preparations for the inaugural WXV event with victory over Canada, who had been diminished to 14 gamers within the first half.
Gabrielle Senft was despatched off for a excessive deal with within the seventeenth minute at Saracens’ StoneX Stadium, however England had been unable to match the eight-try haul of their 50-24 win over Canada final week.
Captain Marlie Packer, Ellie Kildunne and Maud Muir scored within the first half.
Amber Reed and Jess Breach added tries after the break.
Interim head coach Louis Deacon made eight modifications as England tried out some new mixtures earlier than naming their 30-player squad for the WXV competitors on Sunday.
In a typically scrappy second half, England’s assault missed alternatives and had been annoyed by Canada’s resilient defence.
There had been some good indicators with the brand new centre mixture of player-of-the-match Amber Reed and Megan Jones, in her first begin, placing in a robust displaying.
England will face hosts New Zealand, Australia and Canada within the WXV1 event from 20 October to 4 November.
Former New Zealand coach John Mitchell will take everlasting cost of the Red Roses when he leaves his teaching function with Japan’s males on the finish of their Rugby World Cup marketing campaign in France.
He might be a part of up with England earlier than their opening WXV1 match towards Australia on 20 October if Japan fail to make it out of Pool D.
Senft sees purple for harmful deal with
With England searching for to play a extra open and attacking model, they took the lead by a extra conventional strategy.
A driving maul from a line-out enabled skipper Packer, beginning at quantity eight for the primary time in her England profession, to notch her forty first worldwide strive at her residence floor.
An electrical burst from Claudia MacDonald ended up with Kildunne powering over so as to add to the 2 tries she scored final Saturday.
Flanker Senft was then despatched off for a harmful deal with with her shoulder that left Hannah Botterman holding her head in ache.
Canada’s forwards rallied effectively and received their reward when flanker Sara Svoboda charged down Holly Aitchison’s tried clearance to attain.
But prop Muir crashed over and Jones notched her first conversion to present England a 17-5 half-time lead.
England assault stutters in second half
England struggled to take full benefit of their further participant within the second half.
MacDonald ought to have been put clear however Breach’s cross was behind her, Kildunne stored the ball as an alternative of passing to Breach and Packer dropped the ball when diving over the road from a rolling maul.
Finally, Reed spied an enormous hole in Canada’s defence and ran by to attain and Jones accelerated away to ship Breach over to finish England’s scoring.
But Canada weren’t completed. Taylor Perry held off Packer’s problem to rumble over the road because the guests breached England’s defence for a second time.
Having already used all their substitutes, England completed the match with 14 gamers after alternative scrum-half Lucy Packer went off injured.
But the world primary facet will head off to New Zealand off the again of two well-deserved victories.
‘Maybe we tried too laborious at occasions.’
England interim head coach Louis Deacon: “It was somewhat bit irritating, we by no means actually received into our rhythm. It was a really stop-start sport. We turned over an excessive amount of ball and perhaps tried too laborious at occasions.
“It was a day for the defence, with some actually good defensive work there at this time, notably on our tryline.
“It is a brand new sport for lots of these gamers and we’re seeing some actually good indicators of it, we simply want a greater understanding of the place we’re.
“We will now have some downtime earlier than WXV and a little bit of freshness can kick in to hit the bottom operating for WXV.”
Player of the match Amber Reed: “Canada are all the time going to be bodily and work laborious. They all the time play in the best areas and put us in some tough conditions.
“We have gotten issues to repair up nonetheless however from 5 weeks in the past we have now began to implement our plan and it’s coming. For the staff this week and final week to exit and carry out with these modifications, to play how we need to, is absolutely thrilling.”
Line-ups
England: Kildunne; Breach, Jones, Reed, MacDonald; Aitchison, Hunt; Botterman, Cokayne, Muir, Aldcroft, Beckett, Talling, Allen, Packer (capt).
Replacements: Powell, Carson, Bern, O’Donnell, Galligan, Packer, Bridger, Dow.
Canada: Grant; Farries, Bermudez, Perry, Scurfield; Gallagher, Pelletier; DeService provider, Tuttosi, Menin, Beukeboom, Holtkamp, Senft, Svoboda, De Goede.
Replacements: Boag, Hunt, Ellis, Royer, Forteza, Apps, Seumanutafa, Symonds.
Red card: Senft
Referee: Amber McLachlan (Australia)
