The Wallabies have faced the music. Can they now change their Bledisloe tune?

October 12, 2026 — 3:59pm

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Monday press conferences after a Bledisloe Cup defeat would have to rank among the least appealing assignments for any Wallabies player.

Particularly when Saturday’s 50-19 capitulation against the All Blacks at Eden Park marked Australia’s 12th consecutive defeat to their trans-Tasman rivals.

On the second floor of a hotel across the road from Accor Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park, the venue for Saturday’s dead-rubber Bledisloe clash, Wallabies fullback Tom Wright was the one chosen to explain how Australia had conceded so many points.

“The guys were obviously really disappointed with the result,” Wright said. “The group came together on Sunday morning [to] face the music.”

Face the music? From coaches? Or senior players laying down the law?

“The music of the scoreboard,” Wright said. “No one wants to be on the receiving end of 50 points. No one wants to be on the receiving end of a loss. At 17-14 [in........

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