{"id":74560,"date":"2025-08-17T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74560\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:40:13","slug":"wallabies-put-rugby-championship-on-notice-with-22-point-comeback-over-springboks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74560\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies put Rugby Championship on notice with 22-point comeback over Springboks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening round of the Rugby Championship is off to a bang, as the\u00a0Wallabies claim\u00a0victory over South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Conceding three tries in just 20 minutes, Australia trailed 22-0 and looked on course for another bruising reminder of the gulf between themselves and the world champions.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-union\/news\/rugby-world-cup-2027-tickets-how-buy-prices-and-onsale-dates\/91e21d28a37415d539cd7c79\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rugby World Cup 2027 Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead, they rewrote the script. From Dylan Pietsch&#8217;s first half strike, to Harry Wilson&#8217;s double, the Wallabies found their footing in front of a hostile crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii&#8217;s intercept try swung the momentum, before Wilson crashed over for his second of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Max Jorgensen&#8217;s dazzling footwork extended the margin, and Tom Wright&#8217;s 75th minute try sealed the comeback and put the game away.<\/p>\n<p>The most encouraging sign from this performance for Wallabies fans was the composure under pressure which eluded them in the Lions tour.<\/p>\n<p>Australia trusted their systems and met the South Africans physically, particularly as the score drew closer.<\/p>\n<p>Just four penalties all game allowed the Wallabies to not let the score get away from them.<\/p>\n<p>James O&#8217;Connor, back in gold after years away, brought the composure this side has long craved, steering a young backline around the park all night.<\/p>\n<p>For Joe Schmidt, the result was validation of the groundwork he has laid over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>The comeback was one of the greatest in Wallabies history, as they prepare for their second fixture against the Springboks next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening round of the Rugby Championship is off to a bang, as the\u00a0Wallabies claim\u00a0victory over South Africa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-74560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74560","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=74560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}