Australia fullback Tom Wright mentioned the Wallabies weren’t studying a terrific deal into the British & Irish Lions’ loss to Argentina of their tour opener final week.
The Lions celebration arrived in Perth on Sunday to organize for his or her first tour match in Australia in opposition to Western Drive subsequent weekend, when they are going to be seeking to get again to successful methods after taking place 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 working rugby,” Wright instructed 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? Possibly or perhaps not, there have been a number of large 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 fellows making an attempt to come back 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 come back his approach from the Lions through the three exams in July and August however hoped that may additionally deliver alternatives.
“We noticed a number of contested kicking within the Argentina sport,” he added.
“[I’ll] simply [do] that work within the air, making an attempt to win the area. 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 ignored of the 2023 World Cup squad by Eddie Jones and subsequently 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 beneath no illusions concerning the energy of the opposition they might be going through in Newcastle on July 6.
“At all times 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 our eyes type of set on Newcastle, and that being a very essential fixture to leapfrog us into what is clearly a robust Lions facet in July too.”
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