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How New Zealand’s media reacted after the All Blacks defeated the Wallabies 40-12


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UNDER siege Wallabies coach Michael Cheika might have been afforded some sympathy from All Blacks coach Steve Hansen after their second humiliating defeat in as many weeks.

But that hasn’t stopped New Zealand’s media from taking Cheika to the cleaners, after the All Blacks sealed their 16th consecutive Bledisloe Cup series on Saturday with a 40-12 demolition at Eden Park.
Writing for stuff.co.nz, English-born New Zealand scribe Mark Reason began his column by taking a wild and unnecessary swipe at disgraced Australian cricket captain Steve Smith.

He then turned his focus on the Wallabies’ playing group and coaching staff, describing them as a “rabble.”

“At least Michael Cheika did not burst into tears, showing that he has a great deal more dignity than the nation’s cricketers,” Reason wrote.

“But Cheika cannot continue in his job as Wallabies coach.”

“Australia were poor in the opening Bledisloe test and yet somehow contrived to get worse in the second.

“Their ball skills, their defence, their fitness, and their willingness to gut it out were atrocious.

“It was good to see Beauden Barrett somewhere near his form of 2016, and he may yet look back on this 40-12 drubbing as the night he got rid of Cheika.

“Barrett scored four tries and was unlucky not to get more, even if the first one was off a wildly forward pass.

“The All Blacks should really have put 50 points on this Australia rabble.”

Reason attempted to single out every error by the Wallabies in the opening quarter of the match — despite the score line locked 7-7 until the 38th minute — and few escaped his wrath.

He continued by questioning the effort of Kurtley Beale and concluded that as a result, Cheika and Wallabies captain Michael have lost the support of the team.

“At times Beale looked as if he just didn’t care, and was sulkily missing his mate Israel Folau,” Reason said.
“He kicked out on the full, coughed up the ball in contact and he missed tackles.

“He is usually a pretty good scramble defender, but he just couldn’t be bothered.

“Only David Pocock and Will Genia survived with their reputations and are the only two who would make the All Blacks team given Aaron Smith is far from his best …

“Cheika said before the game that he had full belief in his players and was looking for improved resilience, concentration and turnover defence.

“He got none of those things which suggests that he and Hooper, who has an even worse captaincy record than Cheika’s international coaching record, have lost at least a part of the team.”

Reason’s Fairfax colleague, Marc Hinton, wasn’t so severe with his appraisal of the Wallabies during his match report.

Indeed, Hinton wrote that perhaps it was time that attention turned to praising the All Blacks’ superiority rather than slamming the Wallabies.

After all, the All Blacks are back-to-back World Cup champions and have lost just six matches, including two against the Wallabies, since Hansen took over in 2012.

“With back-to-back victories over the Wallabies, the All Blacks hold the Bledisloe for the 16th year in a row, and have now won 21 straight home tests against the Aussies since 2003,” Hinton wrote for Stuff.co.nz.

“But maybe it’s time we stopped pondering how poor the Wallabies are and celebrating how excellent the world champs are at this timely juncture, just over a year out from the next World Cup.”

In a rather scary thought for Wallabies supporters, New Zealand Herald reporter Gregor Paul said the All Blacks were just getting started and hadn’t reached their full potential yet.

While recognising their excellence on the counter, Paul commented that the All Blacks’ set-piece play in attack was still a long way away from perfection.

“The quite staggering fact to take out of the All Blacks Eden Park Bledisloe victory is that they still haven’t found their true flow and cohesion,” Paul wrote in the NZ Herald.

“As incredible as it may seem given the way they moved the ball in the second half, is that their set play attack, while better, wasn’t as good as they would have liked.

“Good enough to win and better than Sydney, but not at the level they are chasing.

“At the moment, they are living off their unrivalled ability to pounce off turnover ball and counter attack.

“It’s quite stunning how good they are at it — so capable of transitioning from defence into attack and turning nothing into something.”

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