Still, Wright must better drop his bodyheight.īell's tackle was completely needless, however, and if Courtney Lawes had come down on his shoulder rather than his arm, Bell would have seen himself with a red instead of a yellow. Wright's tackle, while clumsy was forgivable, given England hooker Jamies George late change of direction brought the two players front on with one another. Having dropped their last three Tests at Twickenham and seven in total to Jones' team, the Wallabies could ill-afford to play with 14 men for 10 minutes, let alone 20. "But not accurate, not good enough tonight."Īt the top of Rennie's to-do list this week will be addressing the team's discipline, as not only did Australia find themselves on the wrong side of an 18-9 penalty count, but both Tom Wright and Angus Bell were yellow-carded for dangerous tackles.
I just felt that if we could string a little more phases together we could put them under a bit of heat. "There was a lot of character shown tonight, half time we hadn't had a lot of ball or territory but at 16-12 we'd fought hard. "We just made too many errors and dumb penalties that put us under pressure, so frustrating. "Just couldn't get anything going, we got hammered in the penalty count, I think the possession and territory stats were in the 60s in favour of England and they choked us down there," Rennie said when asked to assess his team's performance. The final insult came on one such occasion when a promising move down the right touchline in the shadows of fulltime broke down with an intercept pass to England's Sam Simmonds, who then set replacement hooker Jamie Blamire on a 40-metre run to the line to send the Twickenham faithful delirious. On the very few occasions when it looked like the Wallabies might get something going, a poor or pushed pass, loose carry or aimless kick quickly saw the play break down before it had really even begun. While Hunter Paisami was one of Australia's better performers, his long floated pass to Kurtley Beale that drifted up on the Twickenham breeze and was promptly grassed by the fullback was in some ways emblematic of Australia's evening. But if Australia are serious in their desire to mix it with the game's elite teams, both at home and away, their discipline, accuracy and execution requires significant improvement. It's true, as Jones noted post match, the Wallabies have been away from family and friends for months on end and, as such, deserve credit for the character they showed to hang in the contest. The final 17-point margin was a far better reflection of the encounter, which gave England an eighth straight win over Australia and maintained Eddie Jones' unbeaten record against his old side.
Saturday night's 32-15 defeat by England was perhaps the most deflating Australian loss of the season to date, purely because the Wallabies never seriously threatened England's line and seemed bereft of ideas of how to break down the hosts' defence.Īs the clock turned past the hour mark, it was hard to recall a sequence in which the Wallabies had strung four phases together, yet, 10 minutes later, they were still somehow in the contest, down 22-15. The Wallabies have six days to work out "how to get something going" or risk having the green shoots they sowed on home soil shriveling up on what has fast become a disappointing tour of the United Kingdom.
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