Wallabies swallow 'bitter pill' after brutal defeat

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Wallabies manager Eddie Jones delivered immoderate "hard truths" to his players in the aftermath of Sunday's disfigured 43-12 nonaccomplishment to the understrength Springboks successful Pretoria.

After months of nationalist Jones positivity, the bubble burst astatine Loftus Versfeld and the honeymoon signifier is implicit arsenic Australia present tries to marque amends against Michael Cheika's Argentina successful Sydney connected Saturday.

There are conscionable 4 much Tests earlier the Rugby World Cup kicks disconnected - the Pumas, 2 Bledisloe Cup matches and a warm-up fixture against France.

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Wallabies halfback Nic White aft a Rugby Championship defeat. (Getty)

"Unfortunately determination are immoderate hard truths for america arsenic a squad and arsenic individuals," Wallabies halfback Nic White said astatine the squad edifice successful Manly.

"But thing is personal. It is astir wherever we privation this squad to go, arsenic a group. We person been truly bully astatine that, saying what needs to beryllium said. But we volition enactment an limb astir and beryllium supportive."

Australia scored the archetypal and past tries successful the Rugby Championship opener but it was 1 mode postulation successful betwixt arsenic South Africa feasted connected Wallabies mistakes and ascendant possession and territory.

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"That's not 1 we were arrogant of," White said.

"Obviously, we went implicit determination with a plan, things didn't spell to plan. A spot of a baptism of occurrence retired there.

"They're a bloody bully side, showed wherefore they're satellite champs and existent World Cup holders. So, it benignant of shows however acold disconnected the people we are.

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"We went implicit determination connected the play with an accidental to triumph the crippled and make a spot of past and fell a agelong mode abbreviated but present the accidental is to spot wherever we fell abbreviated – and we fell abbreviated by rather a mode – and to truly look astatine those areas... it's a agelong twelvemonth and we've been unneurotic for, like, 5 sessions.

"I'm not making excuses but we're inactive uncovering a spot of clarity successful the mode we privation to play. We were going up against the satellite champs there, a squad that's been unneurotic nether the aforesaid staff, the aforesaid radical of players for similar 8 years.

"They person existent clarity successful the mode they privation to play the crippled and it's bloody hard to stop. But we're getting there. It's inactive a bitter pill to swallow that 1 and we're not wherever we privation to beryllium - a agelong mode disconnected actually."

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The Wallabies and Pumas volition sanction their teams connected Thursday.

Mark Nawaqanitawase could travel successful for the out-of-sorts Suliasi Vunivalu portion Andrew Kellaway is different beardown enactment connected the helping arsenic helium makes bully advancement successful his instrumentality from injury.

White besides hinted astatine immoderate tactical tweaks aft kicking a batch successful Pretoria.

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"There was a maneuver to crook them astir arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, to sap them.

"As the crippled turned out, the possession turned retired to beryllium beauteous debased truthful astir apt a amended appraisal determination of possibly needing the ball, but besides not wanting to tally it from your ain end. So, determination is simply a equilibrium determination we request to strike, and we didn't get it rather close connected the weekend...

"We don't privation to beryllium the broadside that has to suffer to get up for a win. We privation to beryllium a broadside wherever we are consistent, similar the bully sides successful the world."

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