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Holy moly, the Wallabies have won a series! But how now can they capitalise on their growing momentum and soaring confidence without a game for the next three weeks?
This is, of course, the first full season in which the move of the mid-year internationals to July has fully taken effect. Last year was COVID, and 2019 was a World Cup year. But back in 2018, we played the June internationals and then went back and finished Super Rugby.
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It tells you something that there were only four Waratahs picked in Dave Rennie’s initial 40-player Wallabies squad announcement at the end of March: Angus Bell at prop, Dave Porecki at hooker, Lachie Swinton in the back row and Jake Gordon at scrumhalf.
It may tell you even more that the group had grown to six when the squad was reduced to 38 for the upcoming series against France, after NSW had completed the first winless season in their illustrious history.
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Brad Thorn is optimistic Suliasi Vunivalu’s latest injury setback is only minor, joking that he’s “quite annoyed” with how well the Queensland Reds winger has taken to his new football code.
Vunivalu hobbled off with a hamstring injury in the second-half of Friday’s 31-24 loss to the Blues ahead of next week’s final round against the Hurricanes in Wellington. Rugby
The Wallabies will play three Tests against France next month and Vunivalu would be hopeful his coach’s estimation that “it didn’t look like a massive issue” is on the money.