Wales Ready To Prove A Point On World Stage

Women's Rugby World Cup 2025: Scotland v Wales

Venue: Salford Community Stadium Date: Saturday, 23 August Kick-off: 14:45 BST

Coverage: Live connected BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport Online & app, Radio Wales, Radio Cymru and BBC Sounds

Co-captain Kate Williams says Wales are fresh to beryllium a constituent erstwhile they return connected Scotland astatine nan Rugby World Cup.

Wales retained nan Wooden Spoon astatine this year's Women's Six Nations, losing each 5 games for nan first clip successful their history.

But aft a afloat pre-season and a drawn two-Test circuit of Australia nether caput coach Sean Lynn, Williams says her broadside are fresh to show what they tin do connected nan biggest shape of all.

"Scotland will beryllium a bully Test for us, but we're besides bringing successful truthful overmuch assurance and belief from nan squad that we've go successful this past year," said nan backmost rower.

"We want to beryllium a difficult squad to beat, we want nan guidance to deliberation 'we've sewage Wales next, that's going to beryllium a monolithic trial for us'.

"We besides want to play pinch passion, play pinch bosom and play pinch confidence."

Scotland person won nan past 3 meetings against Wales, nan astir caller a nail-biting 24-21 triumph successful Edinburgh.

"I cognize that nan caller results person proven that Scotland person had nan precocious manus complete us, but if we return discourse into it, we only had 2 days pinch Lynny earlier we were playing successful nan Six Nations, I deliberation we're a different squad now," said Williams.

The 25-year-old credits a higher strength successful training for their progress, which included a historic triumph against Australia successful Brisbane past month.

"It's not conscionable 2 manus touch, we're putting successful shots, we're doing afloat interaction successful those sessions, a afloat 15 connected 15," she said.

"It's wherever we tin really trial our attack, trial our defence and it's wherever we're drafting monolithic assurance from.

"What a privilege to beryllium successful a squad wherever each azygous jersey has 2 aliases 3 imaginable group that Lynny has to prime from."

Lynn welcomes nan competitiveness successful his 32-player squad, admitting he had immoderate action headaches earlier naming his squad for Saturday's opener.

"That's wherever we're astatine at nan moment, it's really bully nan competitiveness that we've sewage successful nan squad," he said.

"Today it sewage a small spot spicy successful training and that's really I deliberation it should be.

"We're successful a World Cup and it's nan biggest World Cup, truthful it's really breathtaking and nan girls are conscionable thriving connected it."

While Lynn said location is still much to travel from his side, he believes they person made advancement successful nan collision area complete nan summer, pinch Ben Flower coming into his backroom staff.

"We're connected nan correct track, I group targets aft nan Six Nations to nan players, they went distant and person travel backmost successful amended shape," Lynn said.

"The large accent is making judge that we tin play pinch nan strength that I want america to.

"I've been driving scenarios into nan girls... hopefully location will beryllium immoderate scenarios connected Saturday that we've done already and fingers crossed we will travel retired connected top."