Watch Australia A take on Japan XV this Saturday live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n“Our boys took it really seriously when they put on that gold jersey\u00a0representing their country, and I felt like they did a really great job over the last week in their preparation and you can see how professional they are on the field,” Cron said.<\/p>\n
With nine capped Wallabies in the side, several Test hopefuls took their chance to make a statement, none more than lock Darcy Swain and flyhalf Ben Donaldson.<\/p>\n
Swain bulldozed the Japanese, scoring two of the first three tries as the visitors piled on the points early.<\/p>\n
The Western Force lock also stole two lineouts close to the line, with Australia A particularly lethal at set-piece to create and maintain dominance.<\/p>\n
This was evident in the 16th minute when fullback Mac Grealy created a break from inside their 22 for Teddy Wilson, Wilson finding Josh Canham, as the second-rower linked up with his lock partner Swain for his second.<\/p>\n
Grealy was superb at the back, scoring four minutes earlier as he broke clear of the defence and kept his body in to score in the corner.<\/p>\n
Flyhalf Donaldson was in command, setting up several tries as winger Tim Ryan got in on the action with a great one-two effort alongside Joey Walton for a well-worked try.<\/p>\n
Fullback Yoshitaka Yazaki delights the home crowd with a stellar run to get Japan XV on the board.<\/p>\n
But it was all Australia A heading into half-time, taking a 33-7 lead into the sheds thanks to a try to Teddy Wilson.<\/p>\n
They didn\u2019t let off after the break thanks to Luke Reimer, with captain Matt Faessler crossing for a well deserved try after several massive carries to set up try-scoring opportunities.<\/p>\n
Japan XV were left all at sea, with Yazaki sitting down for ten for a professional foul before Faessler\u2019s try.<\/p>\n
Prop Rhys van Nek brought up the half century as not even a red card to Ollie Sapsford for a high shot slowed them down.<\/p>\n
Replacement Ethan Dobbins delivered a filthy offload to set up Henry Robertson as the Aussies raced the clock following Ben Donaldson\u2019s break and offload for Lington Ieli\u2019s try.<\/p>\n
Donaldson continued his late push for a Wallabies recall with a perfect ball out the break for Ryan’s second to cap off a near-perfect afternoon.<\/p>\n
Australia A 71 (Tries: Swain 2, Grealy, Ryan 2, Wilson, Reimer, Faessler, Scott, Robertson, Ieli; Cons: Donaldson 8\/11) def Japan XV 7 (Tries: Yazaki; Cons: Nakakusu 1\/1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia A have blown Japan XV off the park with a 71-7 demolition in Osaka. Japan coach Eddie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,124907,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-222184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australia-a","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222184","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=222184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}