Summary
Thank you for joining me tonight, and throughout this Rugby Championship as both the All Blacks and the Wallabies enter new eras.
I’ll leave you with Angus Fontaine’s match report and see you back here for the Autumn internationals.
The Wallabies end a chastening Rugby Championship bottom of the ladder with only one victory from six outings, and conceding over 30 points per game on average. Familiar issues remain: individual skill errors, discipline at the breakdown, and in-game management, especially by the halves. But there are promising signs nonetheless.
The front and back rows are Test class. Tom Wright is getting used to breaking defensive lines from fullback. And there have been long spells in recent weeks that have demonstrated a backs-to-the-wall fortitude. But nobody in the northern hemisphere should fear their arrival in the coming weeks. Joe Schmidt still has a lot of work to do.
