If rugby is indeed the game they play in heaven, it would look a lot like this. Lord help me, Jesus, count ’em off:

And in the first five minutes, a slice of heaven was confirmed when, after two successful Puma penalty goals, the ball came out to Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii on the fly, who simply surged into space and sliced the Argentine defence open with the skill and dexterity of a surgeon’s knife to score just five metres in from the right corner flag. Try!

Wallabies lead, 7-6, and everything was right with the world and in heaven above. But now it started. You say tomato, I say tomarto; she says yin, I say yang; and now came the hell we feared.

For the better part of the next 60 minutes, the ball went up and down the field and from side to side, only for the visitors to pick off a seemingly endless harvest of penalty goals and one try. Time and again the Wallabies threatened to break out, only to break down instead. Some passes didn’t quite stick. Others went forward. Max Jorgensen received a yellow card for a deliberate knock-down. Balls were knocked on with the line wide open, and the Wallabies threatening to score.

Compounding all of the above was........

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