It Is As Frustrating For Us As Everybody Watching - Wales' Evans

Women's Rugby World Cup 2025: Canada v Wales

Venue: Salford Community Stadium Date: Saturday, 30 August Kick-off: 12:00 BST

Coverage: Live connected BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport online, Radio Wales, Radio Cymru and BBC Sounds

Why are Wales women not winning? It is simply a mobility that comes up again and again and moreover much truthful aft their woeful World Cup opener.

It is simply a difficult 1 to answer, moreover for nan players themselves.

The squad are successful their 3rd twelvemonth of professionalism, a caput commencement connected galore different nations, they person value players who radiance successful England's apical league, and now a proven women's coach successful Sean Lynn.

The situation is said to beryllium nan champion it has ever been and, arsenic acold arsenic we know, location are nary off-field issues.

Yet Wales suffered a 38-8 drubbing to Scotland, pinch nan deficiency of capacity arsenic overmuch a interest arsenic nan result.

"It is arsenic frustrating for america arsenic everybody watching," said Wales guardant Georgia Evans.

"Why we didn't move up connected Saturday is nan mobility that we would each emotion to cognize nan reply to.

"But I deliberation erstwhile you do look astatine america arsenic players, you can't contradict nan fact, nan talent that we've sewage and nan difficult activity that we have.

"We've seen glimpses of it successful nan Australia circuit erstwhile we went complete there, we've seen glimpses of it successful nan Six Nations, of america attacking really well, it's conscionable astir putting it each together."

After a afloat pre-season pinch Lynn, players are intelligibly successful bully beingness shape, but their mindset is simply a small harder to judge.

Was a deficiency of intelligence toughness nan logic Wales were - arsenic Lynn put it - bullied disconnected nan park?

Former Wales skipper Siwan Lillicrap says mindset and assurance person sewage a batch to reply for.

"Have we been connected specified a bad streak successful nan past 18 months that erstwhile Wales spell down we struggle?" she said.

"Winning is simply a habit, unluckily we haven't won overmuch successful nan past 2 seasons. I deliberation psychologically arsenic good it's reliable and successful those unit moments we look lost."

Players do person have entree to a sports psychologist, which Evans says is an invaluable plus successful camp.

"I deliberation you inquire immoderate athlete, they astir apt trust rather heavy connected them," she said.

"They're astonishing conscionable for squad dynamic, making judge that we person those reliable conversations successful a safe space, but besides for individuals that astir apt would person taken nan play rather hard.

"Emotions get nan champion of america erstwhile we're successful a World Cup. They're nan group that you spell to to group you disconnected connected nan correct track."

Wales person 2 co-captains successful Alex Callender and Kate Williams, but a deficiency of activity successful pressurised moments has besides been identified by a erstwhile player

"I look astatine erstwhile they've conceded a try, what's happening nether nan posts? How quickly do they travel successful together? Can you spot group talking?" erstwhile Wales backmost Philippa Tuttiett told nan Scrum V podcast.

"With nan measurement they were playing you should really spot group talking... you conscionable didn't really spot it.

"A batch of these girls play successful nan PWR (Premiership Women's Rugby) but nary of them are captains, wherever is that activity coming from? Are they knowledgeable successful starring people?"

Whatever Wales' shortfalls whitethorn be, they are going to person to find each nan missing pieces successful clip for Saturday.

They return connected Pool B favourites Canada - a must-win crippled if they are to support their slim quarter-final hopes alive.

Evans accepts Wales are monolithic underdogs but they will beryllium fresh for nan challenge.

"We've looked astatine ourselves individually, what we tin bring to nan team, particularly energy-wise, mentality-wise going into this," she said.

"It's conscionable astir flipping that move and making judge that each azygous clip that we return to nan training paddock, each clip we return to nan field, we time off thing retired location and we time off nary questions unanswered.

"So group tin past mobility possibly why we didn't win, but they can't mobility our fight."