{"id":628785,"date":"2026-10-13T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628785\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:12:14","slug":"wallabies-admit-they-faced-the-music-after-50-19-bledisloe-cup-loss-to-all-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628785\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies admit they ‘faced the music’ after 50-19 Bledisloe Cup loss to All Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was brutal, but the Wallabies knew they had to confront the reality of Saturday night’s defeat to the All Blacks sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

“The group came together Sunday morning, faced the music a little bit,” Wallabies fullback Tom Wright said in Sydney on Monday.<\/p>\n

By “music”, Wright was referring to the 50-19 scoreline dished out by the All Blacks<\/a> at Eden Park, which meant their hold of the Bledisloe Cup will stretch into a 24th consecutive year.<\/p>\n

Having made a promising start to narrowly trail 17-14 at half-time, the Wallabies were blown away in the second term.<\/p>\n

The All Blacks shifted gears after the break, scoring five tries to one as they added another chapter to the Wallabies’ dismal history at Eden Park.<\/p>\n

The Wallabies have not defeated the All Blacks at their spiritual home since 1986.<\/p>\n

The result also brought the Wallabies’ six-match unbeaten run to an end, after their recent form created hope they could snap their Auckland losing streak.<\/p>\n

“No-one wants to be on the receiving end of 50 points and no-one wants to be on the receiving end of a loss,” Wright said.<\/p>\n

“But at 17-14, we were right in the contest.<\/p>\n

“The game was there to be taken. We squandered a couple of chances.”<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

The All Blacks have held the Bledisloe Cup since 2003.<\/p>\n

Brett Phibbs \/ www.photosport.nz<\/p>\n

Among those opportunities was a line-out throw deep inside All Blacks territory early in the second half.<\/p>\n

The All Blacks chose not to contest the line-out as they prepared to counter a driving maul.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Wallabies wasted an ideal attacking platform and the chance to claim the lead by giving away a penalty at the set-piece, allowing the All Blacks to exit their 22.<\/p>\n

The home side proceeded to move play down field, resulting in Cam Roigard’s 48th-minute try.<\/p>\n

“It’s a game of moments,” Wright said.<\/p>\n

“We earned opportunities to get close to their line really early in the second half.<\/p>\n

“We weren’t disciplined enough to execute a play and that was right down on their try line.<\/p>\n

“We were pleased with how we started the second half and then there was a snowball effect of moments.”<\/p>\n

Wright noted the All Blacks “physically imposed themselves” during the match while also dominating one of the key battlegrounds: contestable kicks.<\/p>\n

The All Blacks retained possession from eight of their 11 contestable kicks, with Roigard particularly effective from scrum half.<\/p>\n

All six of the contestable kicks he launched were retrieved.<\/p>\n

\"Scott<\/p>\n

The All Blacks dominated the aerial battle against the Wallabies.<\/p>\n

Shane Wenzlick \/ www.photosport.nz<\/p>\n

The Wallabies could not compete with the All Blacks in this part of the game, despite having aerial threats such as wingers Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii and Max Jorgensen.<\/p>\n

They enjoyed the upper hand in contestable kicks when they defeated the world champion Springboks 42-38 in Perth late last month.<\/p>\n

“We saw that the ABs were able to apply pressure the same way we’ve done previously,” Wright said.<\/p>\n

Back on Australian soil, the Wallabies have shifted their attention to Saturday’s return Test against the All Blacks at Sydney’s Stadium Australia.<\/p>\n

The Bledisloe Cup may not be at stake, but the Wallabies’ pride is on the line as they look to end a 12-Test losing run against their trans-Tasman rivals.<\/p>\n

With the post-match review of the Eden Park defeat done and dusted, Wright maintained the Wallabies were moving forward.<\/p>\n

“I certainly don’t think there’s any mental scars,” Wright said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was brutal, but the Wallabies knew they had to confront the reality of Saturday night’s defeat to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-628785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}