All Blacks fable Andrew Mehrtens fears for the Wallabies successful their clash with England connected Sunday (4.15am AEDT) aft Dave Rennie's broadside was beaten 15-13 by Scotland successful Edinburgh this morning.
Scotland scored 2 tries to Australia's 1 astatine Murrayfield to drawback a 5 crippled Wallabies winning streak successful the archetypal of 3 Tests successful the United Kingdom.
In a clash betwixt the world's No.3 and No.7 teams, the Wallabies struggled for cohesion with a shaky scrum and missing the the powerfulness and absorption of the absent Samu Kerevi and Quade Cooper.
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Mehrtens believed determination were immoderate worrying trends processing connected the backmost of the unconvincing 32-23 triumph implicit Japan successful Oita a fortnight ago.
"I thought they'd made immoderate truly bully progression successful the Rugby Championship successful presumption of betterment astir playing heads up and combining with 1 different erstwhile it's breached play, alternatively than having to revert to structure," Mehrtens said connected Stan Sport.
"But the past 2 games we've seen aimless kicking wherever they look bereft of ideas.
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"Just kicking the shot distant astatine times erstwhile they astir apt shouldn't have.
"I interest a small spot for the Wallabies due to the fact that if they support muddling done similar they person successful these past 2 games – I deliberation that's the astir close mode to enactment it, they person muddled through. If they play similar that they'll get a heap enactment connected them.
"But hopefully they won't play similar that again."
Tupou's sickening caput clash
Adding to Australia's issues, prima prop Taniela Tupou is successful uncertainty for the England Test aft a sickening caput clash against Scotland.
Tupou near the tract for a HIA and did not instrumentality portion injury-prone winger Jordan Petaia besides failed to decorativeness the game.
"Tupou's a blow, not conscionable astir the tract but besides successful the scrum," Mehrtens sad.
"They've got to up their crippled massively for England."
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Wallabies large Drew Mitchell bemoaned a deficiency of discipline, breakdown inaccuracies and scrum struggles.
"I deliberation they'd beryllium beauteous filthy with themselves," Mitchell said connected Stan Sport.
"Scrum wounded them today, evidently the yellowish paper to Allan Alaalatoa wounded them initially, Taniela Tupou past gets knocked out… determination was immoderate inconsistencies successful being capable to get immoderate combinations and travel successful their scrumming and set-piece. That was an country wherever we struggled.
"Taniela Tupou's going to person to walk immoderate concussion protocols passim the week and evidently if he's not disposable that's going to person immoderate benignant of impact.
"There were besides immoderate issues with the scrum erstwhile Allan Alaalatoa was playing, besides Slips (James Slipper) and Angus Bell truthful that'll beryllium thing they enactment connected obviously."
Wallabies fable David Campese was astatine Murrayfield for Stan Sport and said helium struggled to enactment retired what Australia was trying to execute with immoderate of their tactics.
Campese said James O'Connor, starting his archetypal Test of the play astatine five-eighth, struggled to power the crippled arsenic overmuch arsenic helium could person portion seat returnees Kurtley Beale and Will Skelton "didn't look to assistance the team."
"Guys were conscionable benignant of going done the motions."
Rennie, meanwhile, described Alaalatoa's yellowish paper arsenic a "pretty pugnacious determination against us."
Hooper blows up aft yellowish card
Alaalatoa was binned successful the archetypal fractional for a swinging limb to the look of Scotland's Matt Fagerson astatine the breakdown.
Romain Poite's determination besides cancelled retired a effort to Test skipper Michael Hooper, who gave the retiring French referee a spray.
"You can't beryllium serious," Hooper said.
"I americium serious, Michael," Poite responds.
"That is simply a anemic decision," Hooper deed back.
"It is intelligibly a swinging arm," Poite continued, explaining helium could speech further to Hooper astir the determination aft the game.
Stan Sport's Morgan Turinui had nary contented with the decision.
"Poor technique, interaction to the head," Turinui said.
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