The record-breaking wins against Wales and England have been built on a bedrock of principles that don’t make the highlights reels
It took less than two minutes for Australia to show their continued progress under Joe Schmidt. Having secured the ball they set about their work with Nic White zipping short passes to narrow runners who charged straight and hard into contact. And again. And again. And again. In no time they’d worked their way to a 13th phase before a spill of the ball handed Wales a scrum on their own 22. The move didn’t yield any points but it offered a glimpse of what is possible under this new regime.
That is not to say that they’re the finished product just yet. Far from it. Having raced to a 19-0 lead, with Tom Wright scoring his first of three stunners, Matt Faessler driving over his first of three from rolling mauls, and Nick Frost hauling his huge frame across a third of the pitch to dot down under the poles, they inexplicably lost their shape. Wales scored 13 unanswered points and some of that recurring brittleness appeared in the golden ranks. Ball carriers found themselves isolated.
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