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Ellie Kildunne: Purple Roses have probability to write down England Rugby World Cup fairytale in golden age for girls’s sport
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Ellie Kildunne: Purple Roses have probability to write down England Rugby World Cup fairytale in golden age for girls’s sport

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By Tycoon Herald 8 Min Read Published February 11, 2025
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England full-back and World Participant of the 12 months Ellie Kildunne tells Sky Sports activities the Purple Roses have an opportunity to “re-write their Rugby World Cup story into a fairytale” on dwelling soil in a “golden age for women’s sport”.

The final two Ladies’s Rugby World Cup finals have seen the Purple Roses make it by way of to the marquee Take a look at within the sport, solely to lose out to New Zealand on each events.

In 2017, the Black Ferns cruised to a 41-32 victory over England at Ravenhill in Belfast however the 2021 ultimate – which passed off in 2022 as a result of Covid – noticed the Purple Roses as red-hot favourites, solely to fall to a shock 34-31 loss at Eden Park.

Now – between August 22 and September 27 this 12 months – England will host a Ladies’s Rugby World Cup for the primary time since 2010, and Kildunne is mounted on turning heartbreak into glory.

“It [World Cup final in 2022] was heartbreak, but we gave everything we could have done. Not one player left anything on that field,” stated Kildunne.

Ellie Kildunne: Purple Roses have probability to write down England Rugby World Cup fairytale in golden age for girls’s sport
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Kildunne admits the World Cup ultimate defeat to New Zealand in 2022 was heartbreaking, however says the squad are centered on writing their very own fairytale

“It does not actually hang-out me, if I am sincere. It is rugby, on the finish of the day you both win otherwise you lose. On that event we misplaced and, since then, we have learnt a number of classes.

“We have got new coaches in, new gamers in. The New Zealand squad is a special squad and we’ve crushed them fairly just a few occasions.

“It was never revenge and it won’t be revenge. We’re just rewriting the story and we’ve got this fairytale we can write. It’ll be a lot better celebrating with thousands of England fans than it would have been the few New Zealand players that were going to be out on the night.

“I like setting the objective that I hope this World Cup takes me past my creativeness. I do not know what it’ll do, whether or not we win, whether or not we lose. I do not know what is going on to occur, I simply hope it exceeds my creativeness.”

Ellie Kildunne of England is tackled by Hannah Jones and Jenny Hesketh of Wales during the Women's Six Nations
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Kildunne’s kind from full-back for England over latest years has been sensational

The consequences of a victorious dwelling World Cup for girls’s rugby and girls’s sport within the UK have the potential to be monumental.

The current is a particular time in girls’s sport, in keeping with Kildunne.

“I strongly believe we’re in the golden age of women’s sport,” she added. “Take the likes of the Lionesses and what happened after the Euros and their success and what that’s brought to them, but also the wider community in women’s sport.

The Red Roses celebrated their third Grand Slam in a row with a 41-21 victory over France on the road
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England have a good time their 2024 Ladies’s Six Nations Grand Slam – their sixth championship success in a row

“I was a true believer that moment was going to happen [for us] after the last World Cup. I just remember thinking I’d let people down in England because I wanted it to grow for everybody. But I was very quickly wronged in my thinking.

“Considered one of my favorite moments was after we performed France at Twickenham in 2023.

“I remember putting my hand up against the glass on the bus on the way to the stadium and seeing the sea of fans that had made the journey to come watch. We sold over 50,000 tickets and that hadn’t been done before.

“Win or lose, we will make a distinction and we will have the flexibility to encourage extra individuals than we’ll ever be capable to think about.”

Crowned the best women’s player on the planet – ‘My year was full of highlights’

Back in December, Kildunne was named World Player of the Year after a string of sensational displays for England.

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The Purple Roses received one other Six Nations Grand Slam, with Kildunne ending because the event’s prime tryscorer on 9, and the 25-year-old then performed on the Olympic Video games in Paris for Nice Britain’s sevens aspect in the summertime.

“The whole year was full of highlights,” she stated. “It felt like the whole year was a highlight reel. From having a successful Six Nations, the feel in the group got us to a place where we can express ourselves both on and off the pitch.

“The love for not simply the sport or our model of play, however the love inside the group was one thing that meant rather a lot to me, and that was undoubtedly a spotlight.

England's Ellie Kildunne during the Women's International match at Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester. Picture date: Saturday September 7, 2024.
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The 25-year-old has her thoughts centered on one other enormous 12 months following a stellar 2024 individually

“Going to the Olympics and having that opportunity was obviously a highlight, and it was incredible to do that.

“For the upcoming World Cup, we all know groups present up for large tournaments, and we undoubtedly know it’ll be a combat and can take a number of effort and laborious coaching to get us right into a place the place we might be in that ultimate.

“I don’t doubt we’ve got the ability to do that, but it doesn’t come easy. Women’s sport and women’s rugby is growing so rapidly that you never know what’s coming around the corner.

“It is necessary for us to deal with ourselves and the video games we have forward of us. It is now all in regards to the one per cent and what we will do individually to place ourselves in the very best spot for that ultimate.”

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