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With the caveat that we have 100 days still to go, it is an interesting exercise to see what the England and Wales Six Nations wins might tell us about the upcoming Lions tour.

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With the caveat that we have 100 days still to go, it is an interesting exercise to see what the England and Wales Six Nations wins might tell us about the upcoming Lions tour.

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Defending champions Wales kept their Six Nations rugby hopes alive on Saturday with a 26-9 victory over Italy in a rain-sodden encounter at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

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Wales’s Sam Warburton will have to make do with a place on the bench after interim head coach Rob Howley confirmed his replacements for this weekend’s Six Nations international away to Italy.

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Leigh Halfpenny has said talk of a Wales “crisis” is misplaced as they attempt to end their losing streak against France in Paris this weekend.

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Kurtley Beale has scored a sensational long-range try in the dying seconds to give the Wallabies a 14-12 win at Millennium Stadium to send captain Nathan Sharpe out a winner in his final Test.

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Wallabies coach Robbie Deans says his side can take momentum into August’s Rugby Championship after Saturday’s 20-19 victory over Wales at Allianz Stadium completed an important clean-sweep of the Six Nations champions.

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Wales battled hard and lost no respect on the field, but caretaker coach Rob Howley admitted the Six Nations champions had failed on their Australian tour.

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The difference between the Wallabies winning their Test series with Wales 3-0 and the tourists winning 3-0 was just one standout – Wallaby skipper David Pocock.

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It wasn’t pretty but the Wallabies secured a clean-sweep of the three-Test rugby series against Wales with a tense 20-19 win in Sydney on Saturday.

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Australia host Wales in the final tour Test between the two sides in Sydney this afternoon. Join us for live scores and blog from 3pm as the Wallabies take on the Welsh at Allianz Stadium (SFS).

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The first “golden age of Welsh rugby” were the pre-WW1 decades. No Wales team visited Down Under during that time, but their star players were part of early Lions tours, leaving a legacy on Sydney rugby via their innovation and flair.

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One thing I’ve noticed about both the Super Rugby season and the Northern versus Southern Hemisphere internationals is the lack of impact that so called ‘impact players’ are having off the bench.

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The Wallabies scrum is under pressure again. The Welsh were able to re-expose the Wallabies Achilles heel on Saturday, and it was not pretty.

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Mike Harris’ final penalty, a kick for glory to give Australia a 25 – 23 victory over Wales, capped a terrific Test match in which the lead changed sides no fewer than nine times.

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After re-watching some highlights of the Wallabies win over Wales, I was struck by the different reactions of the players as Harris banged over the winning conversion.

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“We’ll love you if you hit it or miss it”. And with those words of encouragement from Wallaby skipper David Pocock, benchman goal-kicker Mike Harris hit his penalty shot to perfection to pip Wales 25-23 after the final hooter at Etihad Stadium last night.

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In Jake White’s own words, his “no-name” Brumbies have been lumped with a huge challenge to take down the second-best side that Six Nations champions Wales can muster in their mid-week tour match on Tuesday.

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Wales have called up Melbourne Rebels star Gareth Delve to replace No.8 Toby Faletau who has been ruled out of the remaining two Tests against the Wallabies with a broken hand suffered in the first Test defeat in Brisbane.

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The wallabies combinations fired in brisbane tonight. They produced an outstanding performance and a test match for the ages.

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