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'The Wallaby way': Holloway confident Australia can compete with the best
Flanker Jed Holloway is confident that Australia can compete with the best teams in the world if they play “the Wallaby way.”
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The Wallabies started their five-match spring tour with a hard-fought 16-15 win over Scotland at Murrayfield, which came down to the final minute of the Test.
Scotland flyhalf Blair Kinghorn had a chance to win the Test for the hosts with a penalty, but he sent his attempt at goal wide left.
Scrumhalf Nic White then showcased his brilliant skill and rugby IQ to drop kick a ball into touch on the bounce, which brought an end to an epic match.
Holloway, who was in America when France toured Down Under July last year, said he was happy with the win but knows that the Wallabies have a “bigger mountain to climb” this weekend.
“We just need to be more clinical and focus on our game and what we provide and know if we can produce our best performance we can take it to them,” Holloway said during the week.
“We’ve showed that multiple times (in) that South African game, the All Blacks first Test we were right there.
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“We know if we play the Wallaby way, we can get really close to these guys if not beat them.
“They’re gonna be tough at home, they’re the second ranked team in the world for a reason.
“They’re big bodies and they’ll run hard and we need to front up and we need to get a good week of prep this week to do that.”
Scotland controlled 55 per cent of possession across the 80 minutes, and dominated the territory battle 58 to 42.
The hosts even scored more tries than the Wallabies, but the visitors finished the Test ahead on the stat that matters – the scoreboard.
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Australia’s never say die attitude kept them in the Test, even after Kinghorn helped Scotland to a 15-6 lead with 10 points in 11 minutes after the break.
The Wallabies appeared to be in some trouble when winger Duhan van der Merwe made a break down the left wing, before replacement Glen Young was controversially sin binned for a high clean-out.
That moment swung the moment back in the visitors favour, with skipper James Slipper scoring the Wallabies’ only try of the match shortly after.
Flyhalf Bernard Foley gave his side the lead inside the final 10 minutes with a penalty, while the rest was history.
Reflecting on the tense one-point win, Holloway said that the team is chasing “consistency” as they look to back up their win against World No. 2 France.
“We wanted to build pressure throughout set piece. For forward individually, maul, attack and (defence). Our maul defence was quite good.
“Our maul attack was better but we didn’t get any tries from that so it’s something that we really want to work on.
“Our scrum, we got some pay, especially on these European tours going against these European sides, that’s where they live in the set-piece battle.
“We’re building towards it, the key is for us is consistency and that’s been no secret over the last 10 weeks is after a win we need to back it up.
“That’s the main thing we’re chasing is to focus on the process, not so much the outcome.”
The Wallabies’ second game of their spring tour kicks off on Sunday morning (AEST) at Stade de France.
Australia will also play Tests against Italy, Ireland and Wales before tehri 2022 campaign ends.
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1 Go to commentsBeautiful shot from Finau, end of story. Gutted for Shaun Stevenson though.
4 Go to commentsThe Chiefs definitely didn’t win ugly. They had the superior scrum, a dominant lineout, and their defence was excellent once the Waratahs scored their two tries (thanks to some lucky refereeing calls mind you). They put pressure on the Waratahs lineout throughout the game, and the mind boggles as to why the referee did not award a yellow card or a penalty try against the Waratahs for repeated scrum infringements on their own try line before Narawa’s first try. And the Chiefs were slick with their passing and running angles on attack. It was a dominant performance all round, even with many questionable refereeing decisions.
1 Go to commentsWasnt late. Ref 2 assistants andTMO all saw it so who are you to say it was?
4 Go to commentsAre the Brumbies playing the Blues twice in a row?
4 Go to commentsBig difference from the Saders. Forwards really muscled up and laid a solid platform. Scooter brought some steel and I liked the loosie combination. Newell has been rather disappointing this season but stepped up big time - happy also to see Franks dot down. He should do that more often! Reihana had a good game and there seems to be more flair and invention with him in the saddle. McNicoll plays well from the back and is reliable plus inventive when he joins the line. Keep it up chaps!
3 Go to comments🤦♂️🤣 who cares who’s the best . All I know is the All Blacks have the star coach but have few star players now …
30 Go to commentsJe suis sûr que Farrell est impatient de jouer avec Lopez et Machenaud et d’être entraîné par Collazo… 🤭
1 Go to commentsAn on field red (aka a full red) in SRP must surely carry a bigger suspension than a red card given by the bunker as that carries a 20 minute team punishment. Had Damon Murphy abdicated his responsibility as a ref and issued both Drua players a yellow, which would have been upgraded to a 20 minute red by the bunker, that would have killed Australia and New Zealand’s push for the 20 minute red to be trialled globally from July this year.
11 Go to commentsEver so often you all post a Danny Care story that isn’t the announcement that he has finally re-signed for one more, victory tour season at Quins and I’m just like, “well you fooled me again!” My absolute favorite player ever, we need to make his final year at the Stoop (and Twickers) official already. I know he supposedly snubbed France but I won’t feel better until he signs.
1 Go to commentslate hit what late hit it wasn’t at all late and can clearly see he was committed before the tackle
4 Go to commentsChristian Lio -Willies 2 try perfomance was a standout. As was captain Scott Barrett. Up front was where the boys won it.They are a great team and players. Fantastic Crusaders , you can keep going.
3 Go to commentsI don't know how the locals feel about that? I guess if you call yourselves the Worcester Wasps that might be appease. But really we need more teams in the Premiership in my view so they are not padding it out as they are at the moment. It might curtail so many players going abroad as well
5 Go to commentsNZ 😭😭😭is certainly rivaling England for best whingers cup!😭😭😭 !!!
30 Go to commentsYup. New Zealand won 3 out of 10 world cups played. SA 4 out of 8 attempts 30 Vs 50 per cent.🤔🤔
30 Go to commentsShould've done this years ago. Change Saturday kick off times to around 11am. Up and off and back home before 3pm, limit travel time too. Allows players to actually do something else with their Saturday that's family oriented or being rugby fans they could ‘watch’ pro rugby. Increases crowds etc. How can anyone that enjoys grassroots and pro rugby have to choose between the two on Saturdays?
9 Go to commentsI bet he inspired those supporters just as much.
1 Go to commentsBen Smith Springboks living rent free in his head 😊😂
67 Go to commentsGood to hear he would like to play the game at the highest level, I hadn’t been to sure how much of a motivator that was before now. Sadly he’s probably chosen the rugby club to go to. Try not to worry about all the input about how you should play rugby Joey and just try to emulate what you do on the league field and have fun. You’ll limit your game too much (well not really because he’s a standard athlete like SBW and he’ll still have enough) if you’re trying to make sure you can recycle the ball back etc. On the other hard, you can totally just try and recycle by looking to offload any and everywhere if you’re going to ground 😋
1 Go to commentsThis just proves that theres always a stat and a metric to use to justify your abilities and your success. Ben did it last week by creating an imaginary competition and now you did the same to counter his argument and espouse a new yardstick for success. Why not just use the current one and lets say the Boks have won 4 world cups making them the most successful world cup team. Outside of the world cup the All Blacks are the most successful team winning countless rugby championships and dominating the rankings with high win percentages. Over the last 4 years statistically the Irish are the best having the highest win rate and also having positive records against every tier 1 side. The most successful Northern team in the game has been England with a world cup title and the most six nations titles in history. The AB’s are the most dominant team in history with the highest win rate and 3 world cups. Lets not try to reinvent the wheel. Just be honest about the actual stats and what each team has been good at doing and that will be enough to define their level of success.
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