The Wallabies have the talent. But something is going badly wrong

November 9, 2026 — 4:51am

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Things were grim, and on the rim.

At 19-3 down to England, with a minute to go in the first half and England pressing the Wallabies’ line, there was every chance the visiting team in gold at Twickenham would go to the break broken, and down 26-3.

At this point a 50-point drubbing seemed in the offing. And now it happens.

Defending out on the right wing, Max Jorgensen took his chances and the England back-line ball all in one, snatching the looping pass from the skies to run away 70 metres for the intercept try and bring it back to 19-10.

At this point we knew Australia was saved . . . and we were wrong.

For when England scored again in the first two minutes of the second half, to go to a 26-10 lead, it was time to assess just what was going wrong. But as this is a column, not a novel, we’ll have to go to the low-lights only.

The England forward pack made ground with every charge, with our own blokes struggling to shut them down.

The English back-line was slick, and in the ebb and flow between them and our own three-quarter line surging against each other, the men in white seemed to habitually move the........

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