Rugby World Cup: England's Rosie Galligan on setbacks and comebacks

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Date: Sunday, 30 October Kick-off: 01:30 BST Venue: Waitakere Stadium, Auckland
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England's Rosie Galligan, who spent 3 years retired of Test rugby done injury, unwellness and lockdowns, says setbacks person made her a amended player.

She won her 2nd England headdress successful March, much than 3 years aft her Test debut.

"I'm a bigger, better, stronger idiosyncratic and subordinate for it," Galligan told Rugby Union Weekly.

"I volition instrumentality the lows and travel distant with adjacent bigger highs.

"Being backmost successful a achromatic garment with my household successful the assemblage astatine a World Cup successful New Zealand, it has each been worthy it."

Galligan's parents watched their girl people her archetypal quality astatine the Rugby World Cup with a hat-trick of tries successful the Red Roses' 75-0 demolition of South Africa.

Galligan made much metres with shot successful manus than immoderate different England guardant and oversaw a line-out that claimed 15 retired of 17 connected their ain throw.

"I wasn't truly expecting to people immoderate tries," she added.

"I was conscionable focusing connected calling immoderate line-outs and hopefully getting connected the shot and carrying hard.

"Throughout the week, I person felt the unit [of calling the line-out].

"[Rested England locks] Abbie [Ward] and Zoe [Aldcroft] are phenomenal 2nd rows and having their enactment was incredible. I knew, arsenic soon arsenic I stepped connected the pitch, I could bash it."

England instrumentality connected Australia connected Sunday for a spot successful the World Cup semi-finals.

Galligan said that England person held backmost successful immoderate aspects of their excavation performances to support the constituent of astonishment implicit their opponents successful the knockout stages.

"We decidedly person things successful the locker," she added.

"It is conscionable choosing erstwhile and wherever we volition usage them. It is simply a marathon, not a sprint.

"We don't privation to showcase everything we person yet but successful the quarter-finals, we cognize we are going to person to bash thing a spot different. What it is, I americium not going to archer you."

Galligan volition decidedly beryllium keeping those secrets from Australian trio Emily Chancellor, Bella McKenzie and Kaitlan Leaney, who volition become her Harlequins team-mates aft the tournament.

"I person been sussing them out!" said Galligan.

"I was truly excited to perceive we were going to beryllium playing them alternatively than your accustomed teams that we play passim the year. I cognize that they are going to connection thing different."

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