Australia coach Joe Schmidt must find a way to lift his young squad for the second Test after No 1-ranked South Africa handed them a scarring defeat
Australia’s Wallabies had the gap to the top exposed as South Africa’s rugby world champion Springboks won the first Test 7-33 at Suncorp Stadium.Australia’s Wallabies had the gap to the top exposed as South Africa’s rugby world champion Springboks won the first Test 7-33 at Suncorp Stadium.
Impotent in attack, dismantled in defence and embarrassed at set-piece, the Wallabies got a painful lesson in rugby basics from Rassie Erasmus’s Springboks and looked every inch the No 9-ranked contender against rugby’s heavyweight champs. Worst of all, the scoreline flattered neither side, with South Africa far from their clinical best.
Equally worrying was the Wallabies’ anaemic attack which Schmidt himself looks after. Halves Noah Lolesio and Jake Gordon kicked too early, too often and too poorly, denying their centres and back three a chance to impact the game early in the match. The only points the Wallabies registered came in the 75th minute – too late to matter.
Mike Cron’s scrum must find forward gear after going backwards in Brisbane, while Geoff Parling’s lineout was humiliated by Springbok trick plays. With Nick Frost and Jeremy Williams out with concussion, Taniela Tupou in Tonga for his father’s funeral and Allan Allalatoa badly out of form, Australia’s engine room must repair on the run.
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