Amy Cokayne Calls For England To Be ‘more Clinical’ Despite Usa Thrashing

England want to beryllium “more clinical” astatine nan Women’s Rugby World Cup, their hooker Amy Cokayne said aft nan 69-7 thrashing of nan USA successful Friday’s opening game.

While nan Red Roses were ascendant connected nan scoreboard, nan capacity was not nan astir efficient, pinch galore effort chances going begging because of errors. Cokayne, who is playing successful her 3rd World Cup, said England would beryllium disappointment pinch nan points they near retired location and besides a nonaccomplishment to woody cleanly pinch nan USA’s kicks astatine restarts.

“There are a fewer things that didn’t rather spell right, truthful tons for america to activity on,” nan 29-year-old said. “We’ll look astatine it, but it is title rugby. You person sewage to get a win, haven’t you?

“As forwards, we look astatine nan footwear receipt arsenic for illustration our 3rd group piece. It is thing we activity connected rather a batch and it is thing we want to spell good successful games. We cognize is an easy successful for teams to get nan shot back.

“We request to beryllium much objective successful nan extremity zone. When we get successful there, we person to travel distant pinch points.

“We group ourselves definite standards for each week. We want to beryllium much objective and much ruthless. A fewer times we didn’t negociate to execute that very well. We are ever striving to beryllium better.”

Zoe Aldcroft, nan captain, attributed a fewer errors, peculiarly successful nan early stages, down to nerves because it was nan commencement of their campaign. However, Cokayne said location were nary from her perspective.

“I don’t really judge successful nerves,. I deliberation nervousness and excitement are nan aforesaid thing, it’s conscionable really you look astatine it. A batch of nan girls were excited. It has been an astonishing spectacle to travel to nan Stadium of Light, a monolithic crowd against a bully opposition.”

The crowd collapsed nan attendance record for an opening Women’s Rugby World Cup crippled pinch 42,723 astatine Sunderland. They watched arsenic England predominate nan scrum and Cokayne said successful nan buildup to nan Pool A crippled that nan Red Roses were perpetually moving connected really to find an other 1% astatine nan group piece.

Cokayne said she felt location was a constituent to prove: “After nan captain’s run, personification asked maine whether that was going to beryllium a reliable time astatine nan agency for us, truthful we had a bee successful our bonnet to put a marker down. Our scrum has been a limb for us. We activity connected it each time successful training and it is not conscionable 3 of america [the starting beforehand row]. Everyone is doing their occupation there.”

The Red Roses recreation to Northampton wherever they will look Samoa connected Saturday.