25 Aug 2017

'No communication' to blame for Wallabies loss

From Morning Report, 8:40 am on 25 August 2017

After an embarrassing performance by the Wallabies in the first Bledisloe match, Sydney Morning Herald journalist and former Wallaby Peter FitzSimons discusses whether the team can turn its game around.

At one stage the Wallabies trailed 54 points to 6, before eventually losing 54-34.

"It was a shocking start from the Wallabies in that first half. I do take some solace from the second half, because when it was 54-6... It looked to me like we were going to go down by 80 points, and then to the Wallabies credit, even though they were going to obviously lose, they came back into it," FitzSimons says.

He says the main problem was virtually no communication in the Wallabies' back line.

So is there any chance the Wallabies can turn around their performance in just one week?