The ghosts of previous losses to Samoa, Scotland and Italy may haunt fans, but there is no comparison with the coming match.
The rising tide of anxiety about the Wallabies’ Test against Georgia has been unmistakable this week.
For a start, those Samoa and Scotland Tests were scheduling nightmares, and then-coach Robbie Deans didn’t want at least one of them . There is no comparison between that trio of losses and the Georgia fixture; in fact, Georgia have been more inconvenienced in their preparation, courtesy of that game in Japan last week.The Wallabies’ selections this week also point to the emergence of a core of players that signal who Schmidt is going to base his team around.
The third point about this Wallabies’ 23 is that it is a bit Bomb Squad-ish. Certainly it doesn’t go full noise on a 6-2 split like the Springboks, but it has two second-rowers on the bench: Jeremy Williams and Tom Hooper ., but it’s also a recognition of what’s just over the horizon, where Test coaches must always be looking.
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