Wallabies face up to annual All Blacks examination with new reason for hope | Angus Fontaine
Australia last held the Bledisloe Cup in 2002 but can now turn to inside knowledge at the same time as New Zealand have a chink in their armour
Bledisloe Cup week: New Zealanders still relish it, Australians have come to dread it. For Wallabies fans, it’s an annual examination akin to a dentist or doctors consult, a mostly shameful ordeal in which they’re painfully probed and sent away to do better. “Tsk, tsk,” they seem to say year after year. “Might be time to make some changes.”
After achieving the ignominy of 21 consecutive Bledisloe Cup series losses last season, Australia have made changes. In a “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” move, they hired two New Zealanders, coach Joe Schmidt and scrum guru Mike Cron, to snap the seven-Test losing streak that began after the Wallabies’ last win in Brisbane back in 2020.
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