Physicality The Focus For Canada - Wales Lock Crabb

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

Wales guardant Gwen Crabb admits her side's physicality was "nowhere adjacent wherever it needed to be" during their dense conclusion to Scotland successful their opening Women's Rugby World Cup game.

The fastener says that facet of nan crippled will beryllium nan large attraction this week arsenic Wales hole to play Canada - a elephantine of nan women's crippled - connected Saturday, knowing they must triumph to support their slim quarter-final hopes alive.

Wales caput coach Sean Lynn promised immoderate reliable and honorable conversations successful Monday's debrief arsenic he and his backroom unit picked isolated their 38-8 stuffing successful Salford.

Crabb said it had been a beneficial process.

"It has been really absorbing to beryllium capable to bespeak and to beryllium capable to unfastened up arsenic a group, I deliberation you tin really study a batch from losing for illustration that," she said.

Players were questioned on, "How did you consciousness our warm-up went? At what constituent during nan crippled do you deliberation we mislaid it? How tin we usage those learnings to make judge that doesn't hap again?"

Crabb said nan communal taxable was Wales' deficiency of physicality, pinch Lynn saying post-match that they were "bullied disconnected nan park".

"I deliberation if we tin get that right, it really feeds into each different portion of our game," Crabb said.

"We request to triumph that physicality battle, and past we tin get out, spell guardant and we tin play successful our structure.

"We've done each nan beingness preparation, it's conscionable really do we get ourselves successful a spot wherever we spell and return a really beingness squad to acheronian places?"

Canada are tipped to situation tourney hosts England for nan title.

Wales person not beaten them since their 2006 triumph successful Cardiff, pinch their past gathering a 42-22 conclusion astatine WXV1 successful New Zealand 2 years ago.

"They are a very beingness team, they are 2nd successful nan world, they are up location pinch immoderate of nan favourites to triumph this tournament," said Crabb.

"But for maine personally and I deliberation arsenic a team, that makes america really excited, because, yes, we are nan underdogs, but we person besides sewage thing to lose.

"We person sewage everything to summation because we are really disappointed successful nan measurement that we portrayed ourselves arsenic a squad astatine nan weekend.

"We person not put each nan difficult activity successful that we have, and sewage to nan spot wherever we're astatine arsenic a team, to not show that erstwhile it matters astir connected nan pitch.

"We person to find a measurement to get to those quarter-finals and this play is going to play a immense domiciled for that, truthful we've conscionable sewage to spell aft it."

Despite nan disappointment, Crabb said she tried her champion to return successful nan ambiance of nan biggest Women's Rugby World Cup truthful far.

A crowd of 10,054 shouted connected some sides astatine Salford Community Stadium, nan highest number for a Wales v Scotland fixture.

"I deliberation having had a fewer days to reflect, erstwhile we were moving retired for nan anthems, I tried to conscionable return it successful and clasp it arsenic overmuch arsenic I could," she said.

"That's a large point that I'm trying to attraction connected now, arsenic portion of my game, is to return thing for granted and to really return nan clip to bask moments for illustration that.

"I had goose bumps stepping retired onto nan pitch. It was incredible, and you're looking astir and nan stadium is full.

"As women's rugby players, that's not thing that we acquisition each excessively much, and hopefully I deliberation we tin spot that that is thing we are going to get to acquisition a batch more."