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Roar Forum: The Wallabies' to-do list before the Rugby Championship

Israel Folau (AAP Image/Dave Hunt)
25th June, 2016
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The dust is settling after the Wallabies’ 0-3 series loss to England last night. There’s a little under two months until the Rugby Championship begins. So, what to do?

Australian rugby is asking some pretty serious questions of itself right now having lost all three matches of their series against England.

More of the wash-up from Wallabies vs England
» Five talking points from the match
» England whitewashes the Wallabies
» Match report: Wallabies go down in points-fest
» DIY Player Ratings
» How hard does a Wallabies forward hit?
» Re-live the match with our live blog
» WATCH: The full match highlights

Last night’s match was probably the Wallabies’ best effort of the lot and when the team puts up 40 points you’d expect them to be winning more often than not – unfortunately it was a high-scoring Test, with 44-40 the final result in England’s favour.

Roarers, in the past two weeks we’ve asked you what changes you want to see for the next Test. But with such a long time before we see the Wallabies back in action, there’s room to do a bit more than just change the playing side.

So now we’re asking you, what jobs do the Wallabies need to get done before the Rugby Championship rolls around? It might be as simple as dropping one player for another. It might be a bit more complex than that.

There will, we bet, be a variety of opinions on the matter, and in this week’s Roar Forum you are invited to let us know in the comments what yours is.

Here is, for your reference, the side that played last night:

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Wallabies team to play England
1. James Slipper, 2. Stephen Moore (c), 3. Sekope Kepu, 4. Will Skelton, 5. Rob Simmons, 6. Scott Fardy, 7. Michael Hooper (vc), 8. Sean McMahon, 9. Nick Phipps, 10. Bernard Foley, 11. Rob Horne (vc), 12. Matt Toomua, 13. Tevita Kuridrani, 14. Dane Haylett-Petty, 15. Israel Folau

Replacements
16. Tatafu Polota-Nau, 17. Scott Sio, 18. Greg Holmes, 19. Adam Coleman, 20. Wycliff Palu, 21. Nick Frisby, 22. Christian Leali’ifano, 23. Taqele Naiyaravoro

What do the Wallabies need to get done before August? Let the debate begin!

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