Townsville Bulletin

Wallabies will bounce back on home soil

- JULIAN LINDEN

FED up with hearing the All Blacks gloat about how they never lose at Eden Park?

Well, don’t give up on the Wallabies turning things around in Sydney next time they play.

That’s the rallying call from Australian prop James Slipper, who is so confident the Wallabies won’t make the same schoolboy errors they committed in Sunday’s 27-7 second Test loss to the All Blacks in Auckland, he’s even offering a guarantee the result will be different on home soil.

“We didn’t play the game we trained to play and coming up against a good All Blacks team you just can’t do that,” Slipper said. “We gave them too much ball and we missed a lot of tackles so that’s going to be the key for us to work on.

“As everyone saw we missed 40 tackles and we let their outside backs really clean up but the good thing is we get to play them in two weeks time and I guarantee it’ll be a better outcome.”

The All Blacks have a long history of getting carried away with all the back slapping they receive for winning at home only to lose their next game against Australia.

“There’s a lot of confidence in the group and we’re well aware this Bledisloe alive,” Slipper said.

“We played well in Wellington and we probably let ourselves down (at Eden Park) but we’ve got two games back at home, leading off in Sydney (October 31) and then in Brisbane (November 7) and we’re pretty excited to get back and get stuck in because there’s one thing this group wants to do and that’s win the Bledisloe.” is still

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