Australia fullback Tom Wright mentioned the Wallabies weren’t studying an amazing deal into the British & Irish Lions’ loss to Argentina of their tour opener final week.
The Lions occasion arrived in Perth on Sunday to organize for his or her first tour match in Australia in opposition to Western Power subsequent weekend, when they are going to be seeking to get again to profitable methods after happening 28-24 to the Pumas in Dublin.
“I would not learn an entire lot into it, it was a fairly thrilling sport … there was loads of operating rugby,” Wright advised reporters in Sydney on Monday on the Wallabies coaching camp for his or her warm-up match in opposition to Fiji.
“Is that the facet they could roll out? Perhaps or perhaps not, there have been plenty of huge names that clearly did not play.
“The Argentinians have been actually good. I would not [say] that the Lions performed actually poorly. There’s additionally that it is a bunch of men attempting to return collectively for the primary time.
“I would not learn heaps into it. I believed either side performed fairly thrilling footy.”
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Wright mentioned he would expect loads of excessive balls to return his means from the Lions in the course of the three assessments in July and August however hoped which may additionally carry alternatives.
“We noticed plenty of contested kicking within the Argentina sport,” he added.
“[I’ll] simply [do] that work within the air, attempting to win the house. Positively one thing that I will add extra of compared to Tremendous Rugby, type of extras after coaching in our positional teams.
“However a part of the sport is overkicked ball brings thrilling stuff into the sport too, alternatives to counter assault.”
Wright was unnoticed of the 2023 World Cup squad by Eddie Jones and due to this fact missed the loss to Fiji that did a lot to sentence the Wallabies to a pool stage exit for the primary time.
The 27-year-old mentioned the Wallabies have been underneath no illusions in regards to the power of the opposition they’d be dealing with in Newcastle on July 6.
“All the time a robust facet the Fijians, clearly, we get a style of them with the Drua all through the season so we all know how deadly they will be, with and with out the ball,” he mentioned.
“We have got our eyes type of set on Newcastle, and that being a very necessary fixture to leapfrog us into what is clearly a robust Lions facet in July too.”
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