{"id":394717,"date":"2024-05-17T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=394717"},"modified":"2024-05-17T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:04:18","slug":"hugely-disappointing-wallaroos-stunned-by-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=394717","title":{"rendered":"'Hugely disappointing' Wallaroos stunned by USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wallaroos<\/a> have suffered an upset 32-25 loss to the United States \ufeffas a disappointing start to the Jo Yapp era continues.<\/p>\n

Australia led 17-3 after 30 minutes of the Pacific Four Series Test in Melbourne before things went pear shaped.<\/p>\n

Australia are ranked fifth in the world and the USA 10th.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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\"Georgina<\/p>\n

Australia also won \ufeffthis matchup 58-17 last year but were overrun by the Americans in a inspired second half.<\/p>\n

Wallaroos coach Jo Yapp is 0-2 since taking over in a fulltime role.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"This was a hugely disappointing result and performance in the context of the Wallaroos program and what they needed," Morgan Turinui said on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n

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\"Wallaroos<\/p>\n

"They now have to go to New Zealand, beat New Zealand next week – which they've never done – to qualify for WXV1 which will be held in Vancouver, Canada. If not we expect to be in WXV2 in South Africa.<\/p>\n

"It puts Rugby World Cup 2025 qualification on hold. So this was a really disappointing night for the Wallaroos."<\/p>\n

Stephen Hoiles had also expected Australia to beat the Americans despite their previous loss to Canada.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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"We all did and that's no disrespect to the USA," Hoiles said.<\/p>\n

"That's just purely based on ranking. Most people assumed that last week was going to be a really good challenge for that team and this week would be an opportunity to get a result.<\/p>\n

"I don't think anyone in the Wallaroos camp was thinking that that would have been the outcome. We've put ourselves under enormous pressure and it isn't a good start for the Wallaroos campaign in 2024, that's for sure.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

New Zealand play Canada on Sunday in a game that is likely to decide the Pacific Four Series title.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wallaroos have suffered an upset 32-25 loss to the United States \ufeffas a disappointing start to the Jo Yapp era continues. Australia led 17-3 […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394722,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394717\/revisions\/394722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/394719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}