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'Wallabies love giving us all heart attacks': Fans react to Australia's incredible win
The Wallabies’ stunning victory over Wales on Sunday morning (AEDT) may go down in history as one of the greatest rugby comebacks of the year – if not all time.
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Coming off three straight losses by three points or less, the Wallabies had a point to prove at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium 10 months out from the Rugby World Cup.
But as it has been all year, indiscipline continued to hurt the men in gold throughout their thrilling clash against one of their traditional rugby rivals.
Jake Gordon and Tom Robertson were both sent to the sin bin during the first half, and Wales made the most of their two player advantage.
While they began to really pile on the points, it seemed Australia may be down for the count after Wales winger Rio Dyer scored 12 minutes into the second half.
But the Wallabies weren’t done yet.
A double to rising star Mark Nawaqanitawase was the start of something incredible for the visitors, who went on to score 26 unanswered points – and to win the crunch clash in Cardiff.
Replacement hooker Lachlan Lonergan scored the go-ahead try with less than two minutes to play, before securing the match winning turnover shortly after.
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After an up and down international season, the result means the 2022 Wallabies avoid some unwanted history, dating back to 1958.
Australian rugby fans on Twitter were, for the most part, thrilled with the result – with one supporter saying the “future looks promising” for the Wallabies after the win.
Great come back. Great game. Future looks promising with a target into 2027. Let’s take the youngsters into 2023 followed by 2027…keep the consistency with David and coaching team for 2027..
— Coda (@codapower) November 26, 2022
The #Wallabies deserved that much needed win. Dave Rennie & the team faced true adversity in this rugby calender year. Good way to end what has been a tough #AutumnNationsSeries spare of thought to Pivac. The Welsh players look devastated after playing so well. #WALvAUS #SSRugby
— Sean Dhlamini (@simthesisss) November 26, 2022
At least they’ll be heading home on a high
— Douglas Potter (@dougalpotter) November 26, 2022
The comeback game of the year!!! Wallabies love giving us all heart attacks lol
— zfr8779 (@zfr8779) November 26, 2022
Absolutely heart racing!
— John Visser (@bigjohnvisser) November 26, 2022
It was. Proud of those players for what they did. But don’t let the result fool you. The performance was dreadful. ARU – take a good look at yourself. Too many games. Enjoy summer wallabies
— Garigal (@garigal67) November 26, 2022
That’s a victory for the young kids.
— Taylor Brown (@Taylorbombadil) November 26, 2022
Amazing comeback!!!!
— miguel ruiz (@callejonoscuro) November 26, 2022
Australia dig deep to earn that W. Well done from a bitter welsh fan
— Germanicus (@CymruPS5) November 26, 2022
Insane autumn series. Can we please get Aussie rugger in a better place next year?
— Garigal (@garigal67) November 26, 2022
The Wallabies were losing 34-13 after Welsh flyhalf Gareth Anscombe converted Dyer’s try.
But the impact of key players off the bench including Tate McDermott and Pete Samu proved key for Dave Rennie’s team, as they fought valiantly for the incredible result.
Is it just me, or was Australia a wholly different side with McDermott, Campbell, Samu and especially Lonergan on the field?
— Mark White (@mrkwhite) November 26, 2022
Great win! Wallabies looked like park footballers until bench came on. My 2 cents from the tour: Mark T has cemented a spot on opposite wing of Marike. Lonergan to be back up hooker to Poreki. Tate has won the back up spot to White. Gleeson/Donaldson need development in SR
— Richo (@rjcoolice) November 26, 2022
Why do we persist with Jake Gordon!
— Chump (@trevorthewheel) November 26, 2022
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After five matches during their spring tour, the Wallabies only won two Test matches – but make no mistake, this is a team on the rise.
The Wallabies began their tour with a thrilling one-point win over Scotland at Murrayfield, with flyhalf Blair Kinghorn missing a last minute penalty attempt.
But three consecutive losses to France, Italy and Ireland followed for the men in gold, although they lost all of these games by three points or less.
As most fans on Twitter would seemingly agree, the future has the potential to be quite bright for Australian rugby,.
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Wasnt late. Ref 2 assistants andTMO all saw it so who are you to say it was?
3 Go to commentsAre the Brumbies playing the Blues twice in a row?
3 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
3 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.
30 Go to commentsHow is 7’s played there? I’m surprised 10 or 11 man rugby hasn’t taken off. 7 just doesn’t fit the 15s dynamics (rules n field etc) but these other versions do.
9 Go to commentsPick Swinton at your peril A liability just like JWH from the Roosters Skelton ??? went missing at RWC
14 Go to commentsLike tennis, who have a ranking system, and I believe rugby too, just measure over each period preceding a world cup event who was the longest number one and that would be it. In tennis the number one player frequently is not the grand slam winner. I love and adore the All Blacks since the days of Ian Kirkpatrick when I was a kid in SA. And still do because they are the masters of running rugby and are gentleman on and off the field - in general. And in my opinion they have been the majority of the time the best rugby team in the world.
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