Jason Ryles has been parachuted in as Wallabies attack coach and knows what it’s like to lose five straight games. That year, his Storm side went on to win an NRL title.
When former NRL hard man and new Wallabies assistant coach Jason Ryles says with absolute conviction that Australia can turn things around after five straight losses heading into this month’s Rugby World Cup, he is speaking from experience.
After winning their first nine games of the 2012 NRL season, the Storm capitulated in the third quarter of their regular season, losing five matches in a row to the Bulldogs , Raiders , Cowboys , last-placed Eels and Dragons . “We were 0-5 and it was basically one game … it broke that drought of not winning,” Ryles told reporters in France ahead of Australia’s first match against Georgia on Saturday .“Sometimes it takes that game to get that confidence back and get a bit more belief in the group. Then before you know it, you turn one into two into three … all of a sudden, you have turned that corner. It’s one of those things where it only takes one game.
Australia face Georgia in Paris this weekend, before pool matches against Fiji, Wales and Portugal. A potential quarter-final looms against either England or Argentina, depending on group standings.
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