So if, as expected, we lose this game we finish the season with 4 wins from 13 games. That's a win %age of just over 30%.
We have to go back all the way to 1974 for the last time we've had a winning ratio that bad or worse. That year we only played 3 tests (all against the All Blacks) and lost 2 and drew once.
The year before was the infamous loss to Tonga at Ballymore (after we beat them in the first test). We followed up the Ballymore losses with a couple of thumpings at the hand of Wales and then England.
1975 was a bit of a turning point for us. Prior to then we generally lost more than we won. In fact our overall record up until then was just 28.6% and other than the occasional 1 test season (of which there were a fair few in the early days) we only ever won more than we lost a handful of times:
- 1927 we won 2 from 3 (playing as NSW Waratahs as QRU wasn't operating post war. These games were retrospectively deemed capped games)
- 1929 we won 3 from 3 (back as the Wallabies now we actually swept the All Blacks 3-0)
- 1949 we won 3 from 5 (2 wins v the ABs and one v the Maori - which was a capped game)
- 1963 we won 3 from 5 (we split a 4 test series with SAF in SAF and beat England in Sydney)
- 1965 we won both our tests v SAF in Oz
After 1975 we only dropped below the 50% win record in:
- 1979 we won 2 from 5 losing to Ireland twice and Argentina once. We did beat the ABs in a one off (to win the Bled) and beat Argentina in the return match.
- 1982 we won 2 from 6 being Scotland in Sydney and New Zealand in Wellington. We lost to England (away), Scotland (Brisbane) and New Zealand (Christchurch and Auckland)
- 1983 we lost won 3 from 7 beating USA, Argentina and Italy and losing to Argentina, the kiwis and France with 1 draw. Dwyer was dumped for Jones after this season.
- 1989 we won 2 from 6. The 2 wins were significant being the 1st test v the Lions and the 1st test v France (Little and Horan together for 1st time). We lost 2 v Lions and 1 v NZ and 1 v France.
That was all amateur era. In the pro era we had:
- 2001 - 5 wins from 11 .
- 2005 - 5 from 13
- 2009 - 6 from 14
- 2013 - 7 from 15
- 2014 - 6 from 14
- 2016 - 6 from 15
Sorry. Went down a history vortex. In summary wins were rare for the first 70-80 odd years. We got increasingly more successful, peaking in the 90s and now seem to be back around the 70s era when we first earned the nickname the "Woeful Wallabies".
I hate to reiterate it but the record over the last three years of 17 wins in 41 tests @ 41% is pretty damn diabolical.