Final tickets still available! Get your tickets for the British & Irish Lions tour here.<\/a><\/p>\nPotter has spent plenty of Boxing Days at the ground cheering on Australia, with the winger growing up in Melbourne throughout his childhood.<\/p>\n
He was in the crowd and down the end where Adam Ashley-Cooper scored the winning try in the final minutes in 2013 to level the series.<\/p>\n
The winger, who debuted for the Wallabies last year, was eager to make his own memories in the gold jersey as they fight to keep the series alive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was another monumental game at Marvel Stadium and it was pretty much full that day as well so hoping for similar signs this weekend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026Everyone\u2019s on the same page. You know you have to win this game to keep the series alive.<\/p>\n
“Emotionally, it’s very simple this week, and we all know the task at hand, so I don’t think anyone’s got any questions about what’s at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Potter and the Wallabies have dissected their poor start to the game, which saw them trailing 10-0 early on and 24-5 just after the half-time break.<\/p>\n
A strong second half was fueling the confidence, further bolstered by the availability of Will Skelton and Rob Valetini at training throughout the week.<\/p>\n
“It felt like we didn’t put our best foot forward, particularly in the first 50 or 60 minutes,\u201d Potter admits. “There were a lot of lessons to take out of that one.<\/p>\n
“They’re an incredibly strong team and we know that we’ve got to come out better and start the game stronger but I suppose there were some positive signs towards the end of the game.<\/p>\n
“If we can string enough things together then we’ll go a lot better than what we did.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies have been given an early look at the MCG as they prepare for a crucial second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2500],"class_list":["post-15328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}