{"id":142888,"date":"2025-11-16T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142888\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:12:08","slug":"australian-media-show-displeasure-at-ireland-defeat-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142888\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian media show displeasure at Ireland defeat \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were plenty of pejorative words used in the headlines of the Australian newspapers following the Wallabies\u2019 46-19 defeat to Ireland at the Aviva Stadium<\/a>. The tone was very much a keening one.<\/p>\n

The Australian newspaper ran with \u201cHorror Wallabies reality realised: Every player rated from Ireland disaster.\u201d The strap line read: \u201cJust when you thought Australia\u2019s spring tour couldn\u2019t get any worse, the Wallabies gave fans an insight into the mediocrity gripping the sport.\u201d It\u2019s before the watershed so we won\u2019t reveal any of the marks.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the same newspaper, under the headline \u201cIrish humiliation puts Wallabies<\/a> on verge of a 126-year low,\u201d the article asserted that, \u201cIt\u2019s been a year of unwanted history for the Wallabies. But after a shellacking at the hands of Ireland in Dublin, the worst could be yet to come \u2013 and it could have major World Cup implications.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacquelin Magnay wrote about how \u201cformer Brumbies junior Mack Hansen has haunted his homeland with a devastating hat-trick as Ireland crushed the Wallabies 46-19 in Dublin.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Sydney Morning Herald, Paul Cully lamented that \u201cwins over the Lions, Springboks offered hope. But it is now undeniable that the Wallabies have gone backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter FitzSimons contended under the headline \u201cThis is not acceptable: Wallabies woes paint bleak World Cup picture,\u201d that the Wallabies have it in them to give \u201ca home World Cup a real shake, but not if they play like they did against Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another headline read, \u201cMistake-riddled Wallabies thumped by clinical Ireland.\u201d You\u2019re probably starting to form a picture about how the defeat was received back in Oz.<\/p>\n

Ben Talintyre wrote on the website news.com.au<\/a> under the headline and strapline, \u201cWallabies in tatters as Joe Schmidt on verge of worst year in Australian rugby history. Joe Schmidt\u2019s legacy is in tatters as the Wallabies face going down as the worst team in Australian history,\u201d about a less than promising future for the national team.<\/p>\n

\"Ireland’sIreland\u2019s Andrew Porter celebrate after Ryan Baird scores a try. Photograph: Nick Elliott\/Inpho <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wallabies have now lost six of their last seven Tests, with an unimpressive 19-15 victory over Japan their only triumph in that period, in what can only be described as a bleak time for Australian rugby.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a brief period of improvement under Joe Schmidt, who took over from Eddie Jones after Australia crashed out of the 2023 Rugby World Cup in horrific fashion, the Wallabies are again looking like a complete mess.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wallabies\u2019 worst win percentage in a year was 38 per cent under Jones in 2005. While they had a 40 per cent win rate in 2016, they lost nine of 15 Tests under coach Michael Cheika. If Schmidt\u2019s side wins its final match against France, he will tie Cheika\u2019s percentage in the horror 2016 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if they lose, his side will go down statistically as the worst Australian rugby side in history, with a win rate of just 33.3 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Australian version of The Guardian newspaper carried Daniel Gallen\u2019s thoughts on the game under the heading \u201cThe Wallabies were meant to prove they\u2019re back. But instead they have gone backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

He wrote: \u201cToo often in Dublin they looked like a side searching for someone else to take control: to claim the high ball, to marshal the defensive line, to calm a frantic moment, to dictate where the next five minutes should be played. Ireland didn\u2019t overwhelm them physically or tactically.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey simply leaned on the most obvious pressure points \u2013 contestable kicks, structured phase play, tempo changes \u2013 and trusted that the Wallabies would crack first. And they did.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia coughed up possession from their own lineout on six occasions \u2013 four times inside Ireland\u2019s 22. Their ineptitude under the high ball has only worsened after similar struggles against England and Italy over the past fortnight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re playing like a team that has run out of energy, which is deeply concerning given they should be entering a new chapter as they gear up for that home World Cup in less than two years. What on earth are they going to do between now and then?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallen concluded: \u201cIn the end it\u2019s the clarity that will hurt most. Australia are not on the cusp of something; they are adrift from it. The raw materials are there, but the polish, the precision, the ruthlessness that defines the very best sides remains absent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were plenty of pejorative words used in the headlines of the Australian newspapers following the Wallabies\u2019 46-19…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53359,42,1449,42016,56672,43,40,38,41,39,53328],"class_list":["post-142888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-autumn-nations-series","tag-headlines","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-joe-schmidt","tag-mack-hansen","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}