Harry Wilson has got used to upsetting the odds as the Wallabies\u2019 inspirational leader \u2014 and he\u2019s confident his gold-shirted underdogs are ready to pull off another unlikely Twickenham heist.<\/p>\n
Few had given Australia<\/a> a prayer last year of ending a woeful sequence against England<\/a> at their London \u2018HQ\u2019 but the then novice skipper Wilson proved magnificent, scoring his first international try while leading his men to their first win at Twickenham in nine years.<\/p>\n Nobody imagined Wilson\u2019s army might then upset the mighty British & Irish Lions, but they did just that in Sydney, and could reflect on how they\u2019d even been just one controversial score away from winning the entire series.<\/p>\n Then there was Ellis Park. Surely, Australia couldn\u2019t possibly win at the world champs\u2019 Johnnesburg citadel where they\u2019d never won in 62 years? Wilson\u2019s army made a nonsense of that.<\/p>\n This time, the Wallabies again have it all stacked against them \u2013 travel-weary, battle-weary and much changed after a long flight from Japan, deprived of key players through regulations seen as unfair, up against full-strength, raring-to-go hosts who\u2019ve accused them of dirty breakdown tactics.<\/p>\n Yet these are the sort of odds that Wilson enjoys, as he seeks to orchestrate the first back-to-back Wallabies wins over England at Twickenham for 16 years. <\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s not been many games since I\u2019ve been captain, where we\u2019ve been the favourites. We\u2019re always the the outsiders, not many people back us \u2013 and as a group, we enjoy that,\u201d the skipper told reporters at the team\u2019s Teddington base on Friday\u2019s eve-of-match.<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe in ourselves, believe in each other, that we can go out there and do the job. Last year, this game was a big turning point for us, which really made us believe that, on our day, we can beat anybody in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n That epic 42-37 win kick-started a year which, Wilson believes, has transformed the Wallabies under Joe Schmidt\u2019s canny stewardship.<\/p>\n \u201cI definitely feel we\u2019re a team being more respected. We\u2019ve had a few tough losses in the Rugby Championship, which we are disappointed with, but we\u2019ve had some really big wins in which the rugby public back home has really got behind us. <\/p>\n \u201cNow we\u2019ve got an exciting four games ahead to keep building on that and get some results, and can\u2019t wait to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Wilson has got used to upsetting the odds as the Wallabies\u2019 inspirational leader \u2014 and he\u2019s confident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-253127","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-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253127","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=253127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}