Australia head to the Gold Coast with their confidence battered after another heavy defeat to the All Blacks in the Rugby Championship and with less than a week to fix a litany of problems before facing world champions South Africa.
While Sunday's 38-21 loss at Perth Stadium was a numeric improvement on the 57-22 hammering at Eden Park, scrumhalf Tate McDermott nailed it when he said the Wallabies were stuck in 'Groundhog Day', committing the same mistakes again and again.
Losing to the New Zealanders is one thing, but being outscored 5-0 by them in the 20 minutes following Jordie Barrett's red card was a bitter pill for most of the 52,000 fans that went to Perth Stadium with hope on a sunny day. Rennie said the Wallabies had put a heap of work into fixing their season-long breakdown woes but they were again smashed in the tackle area and let down line-breaking team mates by not running in support.
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