Wales Need To Play With Smiles On Faces - Cox

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 and app, Radio Wales, Radio Cymru and BBC Sounds

Wales centre Carys Cox says her broadside "need to play pinch smiles connected faces" and clasp each infinitesimal of their Rugby World Cup experience.

Wales were near successful tears aft conclusion by Scotland past weekend, a capacity which Cox said near them "absolutely gutted".

"The astir disappointing portion was that we didn't show what we were tin of erstwhile it mattered most," she said.

Welsh hopes of making it retired of Pool B now remainder connected beating Canada connected Saturday, a broadside powerfully fancied to situation tourney favourites England for nan title.

They must besides trust connected Fiji defeating Scotland successful nan later crippled successful Salford.

It is simply a gangly order, but Cox is 1 of 7 starting changes to a broadside seeking redemption.

"We are proud Welsh women, we're ever proud to put connected that jersey, we conscionable want to put connected a bully capacity and show everyone what we're tin of," said Cox.

"We're going to springiness it perfectly everything, we're going to move up for 80 minutes and we're going to put our bosom into it."

Despite past weekend's humbling, Cox said it was important players proceed to bask nan acquisition of being portion of nan biggest ever women's World Cup.

"We request to play pinch smiles connected faces, that's thing our captains ever opportunity to us," she said.

"We play rugby because we bask it and we put a batch of difficult activity into it, truthful it would beryllium perfectly criminal to spell retired to that transportation and not bask each infinitesimal you can.

"Hopefully we'll spell retired pinch smiles connected faces and nutrient immoderate bully rugby astatine nan weekend."

Cox, 26, is realising a puerility dream successful making her World Cup debut.

"It's thing that I've worked for since I was a child, truthful to beryllium starting astatine a World Cup is thing that I'm ace proud of," she added.

"It intends perfectly everything, I was saying to nan mostly of my family this is astir apt my longest held dream."