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No-one could remember such a crazy game. Or explain that last 10 minutes. It won’t matter. (opens the original)
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Ep.32 – Making sense of all that Perth nonsense with Sean Maloney (opens the original)
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Even a couple of days on, it’s still hard to make sense of the way that mad Wallabies-Springboks Test Match ended on Sunday night. Sean Maloney from Stan Sport joined Brett to try and make sense of it all, and you the audience can the judge of how successful that’s been.We may never make sense of it. Before it, the Wallabies produced comfortably their best performance of the year, and maybe even their best since the Ellis Park win last year. The ‘Boks were good enough to score three converted tr
Wallabies 42 Springboks 38: who said what? (opens the original)
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The best bit about the Wallabies’ win over the Boks? They can definitely be better (opens the original)
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After the Wallabies won that mental game at Ellis Park last year, the celebrations, reactions and overreactions were fantastic. But they were also short-lived.At the time, I wrote for RugbyPass a few days thereafter, “If ever there was a time that Wallabies fans were allowed more than seven days to enjoy a win, it’s this week. Drought breaking wins like this one at Ellis Park should be celebrated for much longer than a week.”The follow-up game in Cape Town was just seven days later, and when the
The Wrap: Wallabies take the Springboks on at their strengths, and emerge with a famous, crazy 42-38 victory (opens the original)
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