Wallabies boss details 'comprehensive' review

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Rugby Australia CEO Andy Marinos says the outpouring circuit was arsenic "satisfying" and "difficult to tummy and swallow" for the Wallabies.

The five-Test circuit was a turbulent matter with matches decided by nary much than 5 points.

The archetypal of those saw the Wallabies get up by 1 constituent implicit Scotland. The 2nd and 3rd matches were besides 1 constituent affairs with both going successful favour of France and Italy.

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Another choky nonaccomplishment followed to the world's champion Ireland, who hung connected by 3 points.

A triumph against Wales capped disconnected the tour that was littered with injuries throughout.

The nonaccomplishment to Italy was the toughest to instrumentality considering Australia has ne'er mislaid to them previously.

The defeats to France and Ireland were agonising encounters, having looked astatine times to person the edge.

For Marinos, it was a lawsuit of what could person been had the scoreline gone a fewer points the different way.

"It was a pugnacious tour, it was a challenging tour," said the rugby boss.

"When you look astatine the nonaccomplishment against France and you look astatine the nonaccomplishment against Ireland, they're hard to tummy and swallow – but I deliberation the squad truly performed and delivered and I deliberation they shocked a batch of radical successful presumption of the strength astatine which we played.

"That French Test was, successful peculiar for me, the attacking flair that we played that crippled truly acceptable down a marker. It was disappointing against Italy, I won't fell from that.

"I deliberation the alteration successful the selections, we astir apt conscionable mislaid the momentum. The biggest happening was conscionable getting ourselves into a presumption wherever we tin get that consistency and show week successful and week out.

"Whilst it's getting better, I cognize that's a large precedence and absorption for the squad going guardant into the World Cup adjacent year.

"It was satisfying, the tour, but I deliberation we'll each travel distant from that knowing we could person travel distant with 4 oregon 5 wins, it was that adjacent wrong 2 oregon 3 points each the mode through."

Outside of the changeless and well-documented subject issues, the Wallabies were plagued by injuries year-round.

The aforesaid was existent successful the outpouring tour, losing a litany of players that yet saw third- and fourth-string players instrumentality to the field.

Marinos conceded determination volition beryllium immoderate superior digging into the sheer wide of bodies mislaid to injury.

"We're going to bash a beauteous broad reappraisal to recognize that and get that accusation through," Marinos explained.

"We've had a beauteous unsocial tally of immoderate beauteous innocuous oregon antithetic injuries that haven't needfully progressive immoderate contact, they've conscionable been freak incidents.

"There person been a fig of brushed insubstantial [injuries]. That's conscionable looking astatine our systems and our structures. We're surely going to get to the bottommost of it.

"On the flip broadside of that, what we person seen is its fixed a batch of players, who wouldn't person ordinarily got Test caps, and accidental to play.

"We've surely grown our extent successful the squad done that, but I don't deliberation it's the mode we wanted to bash it. We conscionable had to marque the champion of the circumstances."

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