Author: Matt Rowley

Matt started G&GR just before the 2007 Rugby World Cup and has been enslaved ever since. Follow him on twitter: @MattRowley

At a time when Aussie Rugby has hit taken a few knocks, here’s a nice little reminder that it’s not just us who look back fondly on the place in world rugby we’ve held in the past. With 22 tries in the Wallabies’ last 5 matches, could there be a renaissance on the horizon?

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It may not have been a win, but there’s a lot the Wallabies can take out of the third Bledisloe Cup match in Dunedin. It was the best halves and midfield performance we’ve seen since, well, probably before Robbie Deans? You can actually see players and combinations developing across the backline. In the last two Tests the Wallabies have scored more tries than they did in Robbie Deans’ last ten – FACT. It also puts paid to the argument that a backline can’t attack behind a pack going backwards, because unfortunately the Aussie forwards were severely outmuscled. While the lineout…

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