{"id":9434,"date":"2025-01-16T07:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T07:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rugby-union-england-need-extraordinary-leader-zoe-aldcroft-says-john-mitchell\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T07:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T07:58:58","slug":"rugby-union-england-need-extraordinary-leader-zoe-aldcroft-says-john-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rugby-union-england-need-extraordinary-leader-zoe-aldcroft-says-john-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Union: England need &#8216;extraordinary&#8217; leader Zoe Aldcroft, says John Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an absolute honour and privilege to be able to drive this amazing team to where we want to go,&#8221; said Aldcroft, who will have Packer and Megan Jones as vice-captains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A massive part of being a captain is leading by example. When I speak, I really mean what I&#8217;m saying and I like to think about what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But it&#8217;s also about bringing everyone else around me up and making sure everyone can be themselves and thrive in whatever they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Red Roses will look to win a fourth successive Women&#8217;s Six Nations Grand Slam in March and April, before hosting the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup in August and September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cdjdgzewznpo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an absolute honour and privilege to be able to drive this amazing team to where we want to go,&#8221; said Aldcroft, who will have Packer and Megan Jones as vice-captains. &#8220;A massive part of being a captain is leading by example. When I speak, I really mean what I&#8217;m saying and I like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9434","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\/9434","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=9434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9436,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions\/9436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}