{"id":235816,"date":"2025-10-31T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235816\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:38:08","slug":"wallabies-hit-back-at-amusing-england-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235816\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies hit back at &#8216;amusing&#8217; England allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/harry-wilson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Wilson<\/a> has rejected a claim made on the eve of their clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/england\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> that the Wallabies use illegal breakdown tactics.<\/p>\n<p>A report states that England head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/steve-borthwick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Borthwick<\/a> highlighted Australia\u2019s alleged ploy of deliberately entering rucks from the side when he met referee Nika Amashukeli ahead of Saturday\u2019s Allianz Stadium showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Play welfare concerns were also raised over the tourists\u2019 approach to clear-outs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirstly, I\u2019d like to question how many are illegal. And to say that they are dangerous \u2013 they are definitely not,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way (Australia head coach) Joe Schmidt would coach a team to be illegal at the breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve had over 2,000 rucks this year and for them to cherry-pick a couple is quite amusing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a team is playing 10 or 11 Tests, any team would have some from the side. We think we are quite good at our attacking breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pretty excited for the opportunity to go out there and have a fair game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>England are odds-on favourites to make a winning start to their autumn series but Wilson insists Australia are accustomed to being written off.<\/p>\n<p>The Wallabies may be missing James O\u2019Connor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/len-ikitau\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Len Ikitau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/tom-hooper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Hooper<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/will-skelton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Skelton<\/a> due to the match falling outside the international window, but they have a recent history of registering comeback wins against the odds, including at Twickenham 12 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere haven\u2019t been many games since I\u2019ve been captain where we have been the favourites,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are always the outsiders and not many people back us. As a group, we enjoy that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re so internally focused on improving and making sure preparation is right so that we believe in ourselves and believe in each other to do the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year this game was a big turning point for us as a group, which really made us believe that on our day we can beat anybody in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia captain Harry Wilson has rejected a claim made on the eve of their clash with England that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}