Ireland Will Want To Prove Win Over New Zealand 'wasn't A One-off'

Women's Rugby World Cup - Pool C: Ireland v New Zealand

Venue: Brighton & Hove Albion Stadium Date: Sunday, 7 September Kick-off: 14:45 BST

Coverage: Live connected BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 14:30, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra from 14:30 and BBC Radio Ulster and Foyle from 14:00; besides unrecorded pinch matter commentary connected nan BBC Sport website.

Ireland should return assurance from their triumph complete New Zealand successful WXV1 past September arsenic they hole to look nan defending champions successful nan lucifer which will determine nan winners of World Cup Pool C connected Sunday.

If they didn't person that triumph nether their loop I deliberation this crippled mightiness beryllium a spot much daunting for nan players but I deliberation they will want to put a stamp connected this to beryllium that it wasn't conscionable a one-off win.

The Irish squad will want to show that this is wherever this squad is at, astatine a level wherever they tin compete pinch erstwhile World Cup winners.

It doesn't astonishment maine that they person selected a beardown squad and that proves they are really going for it.

They aren't reasoning astir adjacent week's quarter-finals and they want to apical nan pool. I deliberation that's nan smart measurement to attack it.

The World Cup is specified a large tourney and you don't want to beryllium seen to beryllium shirking distant from nan bigger matches aliases preparing for early matches. You person to return each crippled arsenic it comes.

Obviously it would beryllium bully to person Aoife Wafer successful nan squad for specified a large crippled but I didn't really spot her coming successful this week.

I didn't spot her progressive successful nan warm-up past week and if she was adjacent to being backmost I deliberation she'd person been successful that extended squad and doing nan afloat matchday warm-up pinch nan team.

It will beryllium absorbing to spot if she is portion of that connected Sunday. I deliberation that will springiness an denotation arsenic to whether she is adjacent to being backmost playing aliases not.

Ireland will want to put a capacity successful to really situation nan Black Ferns and hit them successful Brighton connected Sunday.

The Irish defence is going to beryllium a immense facet and they look their biggest situation of nan tourney truthful acold successful that respect.

The squad hasn't really travel up against nan style of play that New Zealand employment yet.

It's very overmuch offload successful nan tackle, speedy ruck speed, aggregate moves astir nan transportation pinch nan different players that they have.

It's going to beryllium astir really Ireland tin move their defence into attacking opportunities and put unit connected New Zealand, unit penalties and turnovers and rewards from bully protect play. That's going to beryllium perfectly immense for them this weekend.

Ireland are going to want to support their errors to an absolute minimum and that requires each 23 players connected nan time putting their champion capacity connected and eradicating immoderate individual mistakes, whether that beryllium successful defence aliases attack.

It's going to return a beautiful overmuch all-round cleanable performance.

Portia Woodman-Wycliffe is 1 of nan apical players successful nan world. On nan helping she's highly beardown and highly accelerated and she tin move what doesn't look for illustration a scoring opportunity into a try. She's a subordinate that Ireland request to beryllium targeting.

But crossed that backmost line, they person threats everywhere.

Stacey Waaka, I really complaint her. She's a really coagulated subordinate and successful nan forwards you can't flight nan truth that Jorja Miller is location astatine seven.

She has been perfectly outstanding successful this tourney truthful far. She has nan velocity of a winger and her ball-carrying expertise is arsenic bully arsenic I've seen from anyone successful a agelong time. She's going to a monolithic threat.

It will beryllium a large beingness conflict for judge because New Zealand's breadstuff and food is large carries, large tackles - they thrive disconnected them. They each get information each different erstwhile personification has done thing for illustration that really well.

I deliberation nan line-out is 1 area Ireland will look to amended on.

The performances successful nan first 2 rounds against Japan and Spain, they weren't perfect, particularly past week.

But you don't want them to beryllium perfect. You want to person things to activity connected and amended arsenic nan tourney goes on.

The 'Green Wave' of Ireland supporters has been evident passim nan tourney and those fans are going to proceed alongside them.

It's group to beryllium a 31,000 sell-out astatine nan Brighton and Hove Albion Stadium, pinch nan mostly supporting Ireland, and that support really does mean a batch to those girls.

In large tournaments and stadiums you locomotion onto nan transportation and location are truthful galore group cheering you connected and you guidelines for nan anthems, past you hide astir it erstwhile nan crippled gets going, it's much inheritance sound that you don't moreover deliberation about.

I don't deliberation Ireland will fto nan size of nan crowd impact them, they'll pat into that backing but will past put it to nan backmost of their mind.

These are nan benignant of games you look backmost connected and retrieve for nan remainder of your life erstwhile you bent your boots up, a existent profession item and a immense opportunity.

I played nan Black Ferns erstwhile and it judge was a spot of an oculus opener arsenic to what world rugby really was about.

As regards nan tourney itself, I'm hoping that we will spot much intimately contested competitory games coming into these last excavation matches this play and past into nan quarter-finals, not truthful galore one-sided games.

Australia against nan USA past week [a 31-31 draw], that was an entertaining crippled that went backmost and forth, a lucifer for illustration that draws group successful and they are nan astir enjoyable to watch.

Nichola Fryday was speaking to BBC Sport NI's Richard Petrie