{"id":5465,"date":"2024-10-09T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wxv1-ireland-make-three-changes-for-usa-match\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:47:11","slug":"wxv1-ireland-make-three-changes-for-usa-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wxv1-ireland-make-three-changes-for-usa-match\/","title":{"rendered":"WXV1: Ireland make three changes for USA match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Head coach Scott Bemand has made three changes to his team for Ireland&#8217;s final WXV1 match with the USA.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a stunning win over New Zealand on their WXV1 debut, the Irish were defeated by hosts Canada on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That leaves Ireland third in the table heading into the final match against the USA, who have lost both their matches to England and France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bemand has made two changes to his backline. Centre Eve Higgins drops to the bench and is replaced by Aoife Dalton, while fly-half Nicole Fowley comes in for Dannah O&#8217;Brien.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is one change to the Irish pack as Neve Jones starts in place of Cliodhna Moloney at hooker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ruth Campbell is named on the bench, while Grace Moore drops out of the matchday squad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centre Enya Breen will captain Ireland in the absence of injured back row Edel McMahon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The match kicks off at 20:30 BST at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2y9mk8j9zo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Scott Bemand has made three changes to his team for Ireland&#8217;s final WXV1 match with the USA. After a stunning win over New Zealand on their WXV1 debut, the Irish were defeated by hosts Canada on Sunday. That leaves Ireland third in the table heading into the final match against the USA, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5465","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\/5465","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=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}