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Wallaroos looking to hand Tregonning a 'fairytale finish' with WXV1 win

By AAP

02 Nov 2023

Jay Tregonning looks on as the Wallaroos warm up. Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

Assistant coach Scott Fava is confident the Wallaroos can continue their winning momentum when they meet Wales in WXV1.

“I feel that this performance on the weekend is really about back-to-back from what we’ve done against France,” Fava told AAP ahead of Friday’s match in Auckland.

The Wallaroos are coming off an historic win against world No. 3 France and are positive they can beat winless Wales too.

Arabella McKenzie on the Wallaroos’ momentus win over France

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Arabella McKenzie on the Wallaroos’ momentus win over France

It’s a special last Test for the Wallaroos who will farewell head coach Jay Tregonning after two years at the helm.

Fava shared a heartfelt message to his outgoing coach.

“For me, being able to be with him in this role and give him every opportunity to leave a winner will be superb in that sort of fairytale finish, so we’re hoping that happens,” said Fava.

Returning to the bench after recovering from a knee injury, Lori Cramer said the team was full of confidence after the upset win over France.

“The atmosphere is really, really good … we don’t want it to be just a one off thing, we really want to prove to everyone that women’s rugby is really going places,” she said.

The Wallaroos are looking to score big against Wales, who suffered a demoralising loss against world No. 2 New Zealand, going down 70-7.

“If we play the kind of rugby that we want to tomorrow, we’re gonna score a lot of points … it’s just up to us,” said Cramer.

The Wallaroos have a 100 per cent winning record against Wales, leaving Fava full of confidence.

“We’re really pumped to have Wales as our last opponent because we know that’s the sort of opportunities we can provide ourselves and at the same time deny Wales of those opportunities,” Fava said.

The Wallaroos can move from fourth to third in the WXV1 standings with a win and if Canada lose to France on Saturday night.

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JW 12 minutes ago

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Better or worse than BB though?

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JW 12 minutes ago

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I wouldn’t say it’s about it being dominant, simply that it’s a necessary skill in one of the two positions, and Jordie is still too much of a tall upright beanpole for my liking to be doing it like he did once angling back in off a lineout. The Lions excel with this two 12 options in that regard.

I disagree, Jordie can neither offload in a tackle, nor hit like those two. Even Jim and Tupaea wouldn’t be close. He just offers those other skills sets as his point of difference, and I really like his chase/aerial game mostly myself. It’s good his refined these skills a bit more, he seems really conscious about improving at the moment and think he’s making good progress as a result. This is no doubt helped but Razor allowing/giving him opportunity to play a little more. When he first hit the scene he was dream for the unorthodox and it seems to me theyve always been trying to curb that in his game, so it good he’s allowed to open up a bit.

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BA 18 minutes ago

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Jeesh if anybody getting their unmentionable’s in a twist it is yourself just write a response to the article not some obviously emotionally charged chip on the shoulder rant of about how everyone hates the top dog because we win everything…hello! everybody wants to get the top dog and world rugby hates? not the vibe I got from u20s win which is a world rugby run event you talking a tad like a spoilt kid, take the spoils and smile no need to be so divisive

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JW 23 minutes ago

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Well I was going to suggest it’s just his unease that you’re noticing (hes still not very familiar and comfortable in the role) but what you described is just how the brain works recalling what you know, and it’s made the note that it indeed should only be seen from a fullback.

He’s in a weird spot at the moment where he won’t run it back with gusto and flair like he used to, and instead awkwardly tries to retain the ball at all costs. This actually makes him even more vulnerable than before and is no doubt a symptom of how the coaches have tried to change him.

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JW 29 minutes ago

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for a team that has not played a lot together, with many players trying their best for the first time at test level, you can hardly pivot from your tactics.

Yes, very interesting. I think back to Nicks article about your nine and shifting towards UBB tactics. This series seemed a far cry from that, but also equally adept at the structures they did implement. Around the ruck it was very good discipline, not that NZ is a good carry team but I still thought the picture of how they got up and realigned and kept going was very good. Maybe theres some over reliance on individual flair on attack them, we know weve been on the end of that first had in the three prior losses.

Agreed, especially against the ABs, you can play into there hands sometimes. Much like with England’s even tighter games last year though, in reality the games weren’t that close I don’t believe. 29 to 8 linebreaks for the series for instance.

Yes thank you and the fellow French commentators for engaging in the series on the site, made it so much more interesting, and must get extremely monotonous when the topic returns to same one all the time. Kudos

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BA 43 minutes ago

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