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The only moral victory was that your young team matched us physically but otherwise, it was a humbling tour.

Got out with an 8 PT win?

Other test teams would have put them to the sword with a statement win.

The NH press is funny. They called the series last year as boys against men so they have to bang on about a heroic, one sided thumping. Not even competitive.

It was 27-19 and the Lions never kicked on from a 24-5 advantage. Very unlike a Farrell coached squad.

A shocker. Out of character but poor.

Why aren't their scores sticking? Hasn't that been a theme all tour.

A game is always on the bread and butter. Lions were 3/7 on their tries, Wallabies 3/4 with an angry fist waved at the officials.

On the balance the Wallabies had the drop on the lions scrum. They’ve the enforcers next week to make it stick.

The narrative was already written by the media before this tour started yet 24-5 up inside 45 mins should have equalled a rollicking. It never came.

Tremendous effort in application and skill from the Wallabies, no where near their opponents on the latter though, that team could rival the 2015 All Black class.

Wallaby 12 was everywhere last night, huge effort, but a lot of the time that included being in the wrong place. Is their partnership just too complicated or can they make it work better in test 2 and 3? I have a feeling JAS should shift inside to 12 to help simplify things.

Against such a dominant team it would ensure he gets a more appropriate amount of time on the ball as well. Oh, and BTW, you could see the raw naivety of a league player out there (as you’d expect) but it didn’t have too much of a negative effect. Unfortunately the different picture he brings with ball in hand also didn’t have too much of a positive effect.

Yes, there was a feeling of being put off I recall by how ugly it was getting right, and that must be because he was an early get. It’d be really interesting to know which would have had the bigger factor in their raid failing them, the carry on and lack of performance from Eddie or having created a money vacuum all of a sudden.