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Watch: Tongan Thor scores frantic Wallabies try after pirouette confuses Italians
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Wallabies prop Taniela Tupou dazzled his way through the Italian defence in rather bizarre fashion with some unscripted, off-the-cuff moves to stretch the Wallabies lead to an unassailable 21-0.
The 'Tongan Thor' performed a pirouette before running backward, drawing the Italian defence forward in a game of tag. He circled back around David Pocock, using the Number 8 as a blocker, before drawing in three Italians in and offloading with one hand to another dancing Wallaby, Jack Dempsey.
Dempsey dodged a couple of defenders before getting a return ball back to Tupou off the deck, who broke through a couple of Italian defenders to score the unorthodox try. The bizarre play may have been called back for an unobstruction, but was left to stand.
The Wallabies went on to grind out a 26-7 win on the back of tries to a double to Marika Koroibete and one try to Tupou.
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Nz should have won. I didn't watch the game, but the ref was at fault and the bounce of the ball and the Bokke used the Bomb squad and the Bokke slow the game down and the Bokke scrum. They should remove the scrum. The Bokke are to strong. Not fair. Nz should have won
Go to commentsWere the Baby Boks part of this game or did the Baby Blacks play themselves?🤔 That man Bin Smuth once again does a little write-up on the game and it is like 95% about the Baby Blacks🤣 Glad he ends off with the Baby Blacks were actually in cruise control for most of the game and weren’t actually playing for the win WTF🤣🤣 Maybe he was expecting the Baby Blacks to run rampant….
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