Minute-by-minute report: Australia take on arch-rivals New Zealand in the first Bledisloe of the year, which doubles as a crucial Rugby Championship match.
Foley hasn’t played for the Wallabies since 2019 and hasn’t played at all since May. Headline is Foley at 10, on a rugby field for the first time since May and wearing the green and gold for the first since 2019. The Wallabies versus the All Blacks. “The breakdowns are always important but often the result of a breakdown is how well the team is playing on top, in terms of getting over the gain line with carries. The ball is turned over but there’s a penalty right in front of the posts. The Wallabies return the favour but the All Blacks canter up field through a busting run from Clarke. That pen came off the back of relentless pressure on the floor and in the collision. The AB’s try to pull it down and Papali’i (on the pitch while Cane is seen to after a head knock) is yellow carded, but not before Valetini mops up and busts over the line from close range. A clean line-out is morphed into a maul that splinters and charges towards the line. He then pops the ball up with his bum on the floor and Foley dinks a kick into the All Black's’ 22m. But there’s no denying the tide has turned and everything is going the way of the Wallabies. A Wallaby line-out on the right is well worked with Valetini collecting in the air and dropping it for Samu on the run down the blindside.
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But off the back of a crucial scrum penalty and collapsed rolling maul, the Wallabies scored through Rob Valetini. Follow all the live coverage in our blog below! Follow all the live action in our blog below!
But Australian fans are fuming about the last-minute decision from the referee to call a time-wasting penalty and give New Zealand the chance to win the match.
But Australian fans are fuming about the last-minute decision from the referee to call a time-wasting penalty and give New Zealand the chance to win the match. The All Blacks have What a stunning match and equally stunning finish!
Wallabies captain James Slipper conceded his side "blew it" in their wild Bledisloe Cup loss to the All Bl...
We'll go through the review process, but I think it's going to take a while to get over this one." "Look, the All Blacks are a good team. "It's hard to see from where I was on the bench. That's probably the most gutting way to finish a game, in my opinion. Everything in that last 20 minutes was in our hands and we kind of… you know, we blew it. We were confident. "I actually don't know what to say. We really wanted to put in a performance tonight. "I say to your player, I switch on the time and you play immediately and he wait, he wait, he wait, so that's a scrum for the All Blacks," Raynal told Wallabies stand-in captain Nic White. The All Blacks seized on the opportunity, whittling down the Wallabies defence at the tryline before swinging it wide for Jordie Barrett to score in the corner. "That's a ridiculous call from the referee," said Horan.
The Wallabies' Bledisloe Cup drought has stretched to a 20th year after they suffered a 39-37 loss to the All Blacks in Melbourne.
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Wallabies legend Tim Horan has slammed Mathieu Raynal's decision to penalise Bernard Foley for time wasting as "disgraceful" and said the French referee ...
But at the end of the day he made a call... "The referee had told him to play and at no stage was he told or did he believe he was going to call a scrum from that. I haven't seen a decision like that at any level." "I spoke to Bernard after the game. He's gutted." "I've played 120-odd Tests and I've never seen it, and it would be interesting if that would be the call 10 minutes into the game, same thing. "It's just so disappointing to be talking about a decision made late in the game, as opposed to a fantastic Thursday night footy." For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by "The disappointing thing from our point of view is it was a fantastic game of footy and we should be celebrating the game as opposed to talking about a ref decision in the last minute... "There's a sour taste in out mouth, because it was a good game, it was a cracker, great crowd, right to the wire – I just feel unfulfilled, bit weird," the prop lamented. "He cracked under pressure in one of the biggest moments, one the biggest games here in Australia, it was a disgraceful decision and World Rugby need to look at it," Horan said. "As we know, a team scores a try late and you take your time getting back to halfway and they stop the clock and wait until you kick off.
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“I just thought it was a disgraceful decision and everyone in the stadium, everyone watching, probably thinks the same thing.” Then he asked him twice to kick it. “Ninety seconds left in the game, and he cracked under pressure in one of the biggest moments, one the biggest games here in Australia, it was a disgraceful decision and World Rugby need to look at it.” So to lose it, in that fashion, massively disappointing.” “I’ve been commentating for over 20 years, I thought it was a disgraceful decision by the referee and I thought he cracked under pressure,” Horan told Stan Sport. “He warned him then he said time off and then he said to speed up then he said time on.
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But Australian fans are fuming about the last-minute decision from the referee to call a time-wasting penalty and give New Zealand the chance to win the match. The All Blacks have What a stunning match and equally stunning finish!
So, the wait goes on. The Wallabies were beaten 39-37 in Melbourne on Thursday night ending their hopes of claiming the Bledisloe Cup that the All Blacks ...
It is a ground the Wallabies haven't won at since 1986. The Wallabies entered into their first clash full of optimism that they could finally crack the Kiwis. They have had some great teams over the last decade.”
Two Wallabies players speak to the referee during the Bledisloe Cup Test. Referee Mathieu Raynal (centre) is confronted by Nic White (left) and Foley. (Getty ...
"I reckon you could have another 15 referees … "I just thought it was a disgraceful decision and I think everyone in the stadium and watching probably thinks the same thing." "Absolutely gutted. "I thought it was a disgraceful decision from the referee," Horan told Nine. Raynal had called "time off" and then "time on" as he waited for Foley to take the kick. A controversial refereeing decision in the final minute of play has left the Wallabies struggling to come to terms with their 39-37 loss to the All Blacks in the opening Bledisloe Cup Test in Melbourne.