Can anyone stop dominant England winning World Cup?

The representation of England skipper Marlie Packer lifting a trophy surrounded by her team-mates is becoming a communal one.

Packer collected her 4th trophy successful the past 18 months pursuing England's 21-12 triumph implicit Canada successful Vancouver connected Saturday.

The triumph - the team's 20th successful a enactment - ensured the Red Roses retained the WXV1 rubric and marked the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth the world's fig 1 broadside person won some WXV1 and a Six Nations Grand Slam.

They person present won 50 retired of 51 games. It has been implicit domination, different than the 1 that counts the astir - the Rugby World Cup last against New Zealand successful 2022 which ended a record-breaking 30-match winning run.

Next twelvemonth the main absorption for England volition beryllium lifting the World Cup connected location soil.

There is nary statement that triumph is present expected, but are Packer's broadside amended equipped to seal the woody this clip around?

England's bid to triumph the past World Cup ended successful melodramatic manner erstwhile the Black Ferns pinched a line-out successful the past play of the last to seal their triumph.

Under erstwhile manager Simon Middleton, England relied heavy connected their hugely palmy driving maul and scored 4 tries done it successful the final, but that play came unstuck erstwhile it mattered most.

After the misery of missing retired connected winning a archetypal World Cup since 2014, erstwhile All Blacks manager John Mitchell took implicit past twelvemonth to bring astir change.

His remit was to beryllium ruthless to guarantee the added unit of a location World Cup ends differently, and preferably not near to the last play.

A determination to a well-rounded style, based connected Mitchell's halfway attacking doctrine of getting his champion attacking backs connected the shot successful space, followed.

Four first-half tries against the satellite champions successful September to each but wrapper up the crippled showed the progress, but Mitchell was disappointed his broadside did not support their "foot connected the throat" aft letting their rivals backmost into the game.

The adjacent clip they met the satellite champions, astatine WXV1, the lethal backmost 3 of Ellie Kildunne, Jess Breach and Abby Dow scored a combined 7 tries for a 2nd convincing win.

With their backs struggling to click successful attack, England were not astatine their champion successful the rubric decider against Canada, but Mitchell's broadside managed 2 second-half tries done their battalion to amusement they tin inactive 'win ugly' erstwhile required.

England person seldom looked troubled nether Mitchell, with Canada offering by acold their astir hard test.

The WXV1 hosts, whose players are inactive part-time, backed up their pre-game claims that they tin win the World Cup.

They were made to rue missed opportunities erstwhile starring successful the 2nd fractional but demonstrated wherefore they are considered the broadside astir apt to halt England lifting the World Cup astatine the Allianz Stadium connected 27 September.

"It is simply a large twelvemonth adjacent twelvemonth and we volition travel retired connected apical erstwhile it matters," Canada skipper Alex Tessier said.

"The extremity is inactive the World Cup but we are inactive growing, we are decidedly determination but determination is simply a batch of worldly to learn."

Canada person besides beaten New Zealand successful 2024, but the Black Ferns person a past of peaking astatine World Cups and should not beryllium written off.

France look to person stalled but Ireland, nether erstwhile England women's onslaught manager Scott Bemand, are making important progress.

They shocked the satellite champions successful their WXV1 opener to proceed their accelerated emergence aft winning WXV3 past twelvemonth and finishing 3rd successful the Women's Six Nations.

Australia, present coached by erstwhile England skipper Jo Yapp, overcame Scotland to triumph the WXV2 rubric and are starting to amusement promise.

"The spread mightiness not beryllium closing mathematically, but it is closing successful presumption of the mode radical are playing and being coached," Mitchell said.

"All the different teams person truly bully coaching groups, they are each getting better. For america our situation is to get better.

"It is besides astir however peculiar it is going to beryllium to play a World Cup astatine home, thing that we tin interaction connected different radical for the remainder of our lives."