Wallabies 'took a step back' as clash with No.1 looms

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The Wallabies aren't beating themselves up contempt back-to-back defeats connected their end-of-year Spring Tour.

Australia bushed Scotland by 1 constituent successful their archetypal circuit match, 16-15, astatine Murrayfield.

Another choky contention saw France bushed the visitors by 1 point, 30-29, astatine Stade de France.

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In the 2nd encounter, Australia had been starring up until the decease erstwhile 1 past tally from France netted them the match-winning winning try.

Then, Italy bushed Australia astatine Stadio Artemio Franchi, 28-27, to extremity a 39-year losing streak for the location side.

Although Wallabies scrumhalf Nic White conceded his teammates were "gutted" and "really flat" portion travelling aft the loss, helium said it's nary crushed for concern.

"We weren't wherever we needed to beryllium connected the play but we've shown that successful the not-too-distant past we were beauteous adjacent to it," said White.

"We tin get backmost determination beauteous quick. A week is simply a agelong clip successful footy, arsenic you guys know.

"We were beauteous adjacent to being 3 from 3 wins present connected this Spring Tour, and the representation looks beauteous different.

"We're not sitting successful determination banging heads against walls and saying we're unspeakable footy players and the guys marque mediocre decisions, it's conscionable trusting successful it."

Discipline, oregon a deficiency thereof, has been a regular talking constituent for the Wallabies each year.

Asked wherefore teams are disciplined and different times not, White offered a lengthy response.

White cited a expected desperation for idiosyncratic players to marque a difference, which was astatine times starring to penalties.

"I deliberation sometimes it's casual to beryllium truly disciplined erstwhile there's not a full batch of unit connected the side," helium explained.

"You don't consciousness hopeless to marque a quality and look for a speedy fix. I deliberation you're seeing a batch of these penalties travel from bully intentions, guys trying to get disconnected the enactment truly quickly.

"You're seeing that they're trying to marque a quality astatine breakdowns but possibly going excessively far. Just spoke astir trusting the strategy a small spot much knowing that if we enactment successful the combat agelong capable that we'll get there.

"It's not guys going retired determination and being silly. It is from bully intentions, guys wanting to marque a quality but going the incorrect mode astir it.

"We've spoken astir that. We were heading successful the close absorption and we took a measurement backmost connected the weekend.

"It's conscionable astir this week talking astir going backmost to a bully show similar successful France – we had a truly bully crippled plan, we had subject wrong that to enactment successful that, and we're going to request to beryllium precisely similar that this week.

"They're going to person plentifulness of large moments successful the game. In those large moments, the large pressure, you request to thin connected your discipline. Not lone penalties, but to enactment successful the operation of however we privation to play the crippled and getting it backmost to however we privation to play."

As for their forthcoming opponents Ireland, it's apt to beryllium different pugnacious contest.

The men successful greenish are presently the world's apical squad and person scalped the All Blacks doubly this year.

"I deliberation we cognize what to expect from Ireland this week – they're going to beryllium good," said White.

"They've been consistent. They're going to beryllium good. I deliberation that narrows the caput for america and that we conscionable request to absorption connected ourselves and marque definite we're bully and enactment retired a performance.

"If we're not excessively focused connected them and the result and we enactment retired a spot of a little than par performance, we cognize it's not going to beryllium bully enough."

Australia plays Ireland astatine Dublin's Aviva Stadium connected Sunday astatine 7am (AEDT).

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