{"id":5036,"date":"2024-09-25T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sisilia-tuipulotu-prop-set-to-miss-wales-wxv2-opener-over-visa-issue\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:16:06","slug":"sisilia-tuipulotu-prop-set-to-miss-wales-wxv2-opener-over-visa-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sisilia-tuipulotu-prop-set-to-miss-wales-wxv2-opener-over-visa-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisilia Tuipulotu: Prop set to miss Wales&#8217; WXV2 opener over visa issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sisilia Tuipulotu is set to miss Wales&#8217; WXV2 opener against Australia on Saturday because of problems with her visa.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old prop should have been training in Cape Town with her team-mates this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has been asked to comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The news comes as a blow to head coach Ioan Cunningham, with Tuipulotu one of his star players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His options at tighthead now include Donna Rose, Abbey Constable and uncapped Jenni Scoble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales are also facing a potential hooker shortage after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cj9j1r81wewo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Rosie Carr was ruled out of the tournament<\/a> with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carys Phillips and Molly Reardon are now the only recognised hookers in the squad. It is yet to be seen if another player will be called up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cunningham is due to name his side to face the Wallaroos on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c5y0gl45j8lo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sisilia Tuipulotu is set to miss Wales&#8217; WXV2 opener against Australia on Saturday because of problems with her visa. The 21-year-old prop should have been training in Cape Town with her team-mates this week. The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has been asked to comment. The news comes as a blow to head coach Ioan Cunningham, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5038,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions\/5038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}