Wales hit all-time low in 143-year rugby history as pressure mounts on Warren Gatland

WALES 20-52 AUSTRALIA: Wales extended their woeful losing tally successful Cardiff connected Sunday evening and superior questions are present being asked of under-fire brag Warren Gatland

Wales suffered a grounds 11th successive Test lucifer decision arsenic Australia demolished them 52-20 successful Cardiff and ramped up the unit connected caput manager Warren Gatland.

Wales fell to an all-time results debased successful their 143-year planetary rugby history, and Gatland has present presided implicit 17 losses from 23 Tests during his 2nd stint astatine the helm.

Australia overcame a 20-minute reddish paper for centre Samu Kerevi arsenic hooker Matt Faessler and full-back Tom Wright each scored a hat-trick of tries, portion fastener Nick Frost and centre Len Ikitau besides claimed touchdowns, with fly-half Noah Lolesio landing six conversions.

Wales concisely fought backmost from an alarming aboriginal 19-point shortage done an Aaron Wainwright try, positive 2 Gareth Anscombe penalties and a conversion, with centre Ben Thomas scoring a precocious effort that Sam Costelow converted, but determination was nary escaping different broad setback.

During his archetypal play successful charge, Gatland masterminded World Cup semi-final appearances, Six Nations titles and Grand Slams, yet Wales are inactive without a triumph since the 2023 World Cup. World champions South Africa get successful the Welsh superior adjacent Saturday, earlier Wales look a ferociously-tough Six Nations opener against France successful Paris connected January 31, suggesting determination is nary contiguous extremity successful show to specified a miserable run.

Just implicit a twelvemonth aft beating Australia 40-6 successful the World Cup, they were near to bespeak connected conceding 50 points to them for a archetypal clip astatine location and the astir the Wallabies person scored successful Cardiff. Wales suffered a stroke conscionable 8 minutes into the contention erstwhile fastener Adam Beard went disconnected pursuing a midfield collision, and helium was replaced by Exeter guardant Christ Tshiunza.

Australia past launched an onslaught from heavy erstwhile the crippled resumed, and it took a superb tackle by Wales helping Tom Rogers to contradict Kerevi a try. Wales recovered themselves successful sustained antiaircraft mode, but they could not halt Wright erstwhile his crisp interruption saw him chopped wrong helping Blair Murray for a effort that deservedly enactment the Wallabies ahead.

Australia struck again 3 minutes aboriginal aft James Botham mislaid possession connected halfway, earlier crisp passing freed Frost connected a 40-metre unopposed tally to the line, with Lolesio converting. Wales were struggling to vie successful the captious areas and Australia took the nonstop way for a 3rd effort successful 9 minutes, relentlessly driving a maul earlier Faessler touched down and Lolesio converted.

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The location broadside needed a effect and it arrived aboriginal successful the 2nd 4th erstwhile error-free attack enactment was rewarded done Wainwright crossing from adjacent scope and Anscombe adding the extras. Anscombe kicked a punishment 9 minutes earlier half-time and determination were overmuch amended signs from Wales that they had recovered immoderate bushed and momentum conscionable erstwhile it looked similar Australia mightiness chopped loose.

Anscombe rapidly repeated the feat, this clip from greater distance, and Wales had impressively fought their mode backmost to wrong striking distance, trailing by conscionable six points astatine the interval. Bath prop Archie Griffin had fixed Wales immoderate scrum dominance during the archetypal fractional and Wallabies caput manager Joe Schmidt reacted to that by sending connected loosehead James Slipper for the 2nd play alternatively of Angus Bell.

Australia began the 2nd fractional by losing Kerevi connected a yellowish paper to the bunker pursuing a precocious deed connected Jac Morgan, yet they regrouped superbly and Faessler was astatine the bosom of a lineout thrust to assertion his 2nd try, which Lolesio converted. Kerevi’s upgrade to reddish was past confirmed, yet it made nary quality to Australia’s dominance arsenic Faessler completed his hat-trick and Lolesio’s conversion enactment the Wallabies 20 points wide and astir retired of sight.

Wright past claimed a 60-metre interception effort portion inactive down to 14 players, and Lolesio’s 5th palmy conversion saw the 40-point people reached earlier Thomas’ consolation and Ikitau and Wright applied the last blows.

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