Inside this emerging and improving Wallabies team, there are still signs of the bad old Wallabies struggling to get out. The first half of the dramatic 28–24 win in Townsville was like watching the pre-Joe Schmidt Wallabies — or at least the Wallabies in the early days of Schmidt’s reign.

The coach may well get the flamethrower out during the review of this Test to prevent a repeat next week, because it will be well understood that the Wallabies put themselves in a position to lose that match. His opposite, Felipe Contepomi, will feel his side threw it away — quite literally, with some of their loose offloads early in the second half. The Wallabies lacked discipline and turned the ball over too easily, and Los Pumas’ two tries from scrums had their origins in avoidable Wallabies errors

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