Wales 8-32 Australia – as it happened

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Australia scored five tries through Stephen Moore, Reece Hodge, Tevita Kuridrani, Bernard Foley and Dane Haylett-Petty in a thoroughly resounding victory against Wales

Match report

That’s your lot from me. But fear not because I have Paul Rees’ match report for you, hot from the Principality Stadium. Thanks, as ever, for reading and do join me in just a few hours for Ireland v New Zealand, live from Chicago. Bye!

Full-time! Wales 8-32 Australia

A day to forget for Wales and a 12th consecutive loss to Australia. A bit more fight in the second half and a well-taken try from Scott Williams, but in a cohesive attacking sense, it was dross. Utter dross. Significant backwards steps have been taken since the summer tour in New Zealand. They have a habit of starting autumn campaigns slowly but that’s no excuse for the abject defending, in the first half particularly. Ross Moriarty at least put in a shift and can take a bit of credit, Tipuric too in patches, everyone else … nope. Not after their heaviest defeat by Australia since 2007 and the heaviest against the Wallabies in Cardiff since 1991.

Take nothing away from Australia though. They were marvellous. They speed, the fluidity with which they attack is a delight to watch. The chasm between the north and south in that sense remains as big as ever. Australia ruled the breakdown and as a result Foley had plenty of front foot ball and he had a field day. That probably doesn’t do him justice – he was magnificent, at the level he was when ripping England to pieces last year. Outside him Hodge, Kuridrani and Folau also enjoyed themselves and after a difficult year, Australia will be buoyant that their November tour can ensure it finishes on a high.

A first Grand Slam since 1984? That may be getting ahead of ourselves a touch and they did leave plenty of points on the pitch but they will head to Scotland now full of confidence and deservedly so.

Next for Wales, Argentina are the visitors and Howley will hope, pray, that he has Warburton and in particular Liam Williams available. Still, Argentina showed Japan no mercy earlier today and if they are in the mood they can be very difficult to leave with.

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80 mins: Quade Cooper is on and flicks an inside pass. Amos pounces on a loose ball though so Wales have it in the Australian half. He looses it forward though, which rather sums up Wales’s day.

Wales have it back though and Gareth Davies finds Tipuric, who looks for Halfpenny out wide a metre or two out, but the ball doesn’t stuck. And that’s all she wrote.

79 mins: Australia turn the ball over from a scrum. They’d love to finish with a flurry considering the amount of points they’ve left out there.

Conversion! (Foley 77) Wales 8-32 Australia

77 mins: Foley knocks it over from in front of the posts and Australia lead by 24. Wales have been improved in the second half but to be honest Australia’s lead ought to be more.

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Try! (Haylett-Petty 76) Wales 8-30 Australia

76 mins: That’s yet another get chance for a Wales try against Australia that called for cool heads and was promptly butchered. Australia to throw in … Wales have it and are finishing the stronger, but as soon as I say that Haylett-Petty picks off a loose pass from Sam Davies and scampers clear. He’s been excellent and deserves his try.

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75 mins: Gareth Davies almost gets there … there’s a massive overlap on the right. Wales don’t take it until it’s too late but they have it again on the left. Tipuric whips the pass on … and it looks like Amos is over in the corner. The TMO will decide … it won’t be a try, after a brilliant tackle from the replacement scrum-half Nick Frisby.

72 mins: Another scrum, it’s going to be reset … Australia are making sure that if Wales are going to score a try, it’s going to take plenty of time out of the clock.

71 mins: Cuthbert should score there. Or at least have found the telling pass. Anyway, back to the scrum. Wales are on top, they have a penalty, no penalty try just yet.

69 mins: Australia clear their lines, thanks in no small part to a bruising carry from Kuridrani, and Wales will have a lineout on the Wallabies 10-metre line. Ooomf! Sam Davies makes his first real mark with a lightning pass to Cuthbert, who pins back his ears! Is he going to get there? No he isn’t, Haylett-Petty makes a great cover tackle. Wales still have it but can’t find a way through … they have a penalty though and they’ll take the scrum.

68 mins: Baldwin hits Hill and Wales get a bit of a drive going … it’s picking up and Wales are on the move … but it goes to ground and Australia are, a bit surprisingly, given a scrum, which prompts Cheika to hook Sio. Slipper replaces him.

67 mins: Penalty for Wales though … Sio penalised for putting his hand on the floor … so Sam Davies kicks for the corner. Now or never.

66 mins: We’re back underway with a scrum – Gareth Davies, on for Webb, puts in. Things really aren’t going for Wales and when Lydiate accidentally runs into Tipuric it’s an Australia scrum.

Webb is receiving oxygen – the replay shows it’s a horrible one, he really rolled his ankle. More bad news for Wales.

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It’s an extended break while Webb receives treatment so let’s have an email from Brent, a self-confessed Kiwi in London …

Sorry to say it but Wales are just not good enough. What exactly do Jamie Roberts and George north do? They are both exceptionally over-rated for some bizarre reason. Real lack of skills and attacking nous in this Welsh backline.

65 mins: Wales have turned it over on halfway … Biggar has taken a whack to the head and staggers. He needs to go off for that, surely!!!

And Biggar does indeed go off, on comes Sam Davies, son of Nigel, for his debut. Webb is receiving some treatment meanwhile, he looks in a lot of pain. Cory Hill is also on for his debut in the second row.

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63 mins: Halfpenny completely shanks the conversion … goal-kicking from both sides today has been pretty shocking. Seventeen minutes to go and Wales trail by 17 …

Try! (Williams 62) Wales 8-25 Australia

62 mins: North is off, Hallam is on. North doesn’t look best pleased as he trudges off. Australia have it inside the Wales half meanwhile, but Haylett-Petty’s kick is charged down. And Amos has a dart down the left. Wales are up to the 22, Webb almost wriggled through. Scott Williams has it, grubbers, and he’s over! Something for Wales fans to cheer at last!

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59 mins: Better for Wales though, after a no-hands clear-out from Kepu – a naughty one at that – Biggar has the chance to get some territory. He duly does that. Wales change their front row so Baldwin throws to Charteris on the Australia 22.

They’ve made a pig’s ear of it though.

57 mins: Foley tugs the conversion. Australia lead by 22 – in 2007 they won by 31 points in Sydney and that could well be improved upon here. And in terms of Australia’s biggest wins in Cardiff, they won by 35 points (38-3) at the 1991 World Cup.

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Try! (Foley 56) Wales 3-25 Australia

56 mins: Webb goes himself and is hammered by Kepu. Australia have turned it over … trouble … Foley has it in his hands, and the No10 dashes all the way to the line in the left-hand corner. Game, set and match.

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54 mins: A forward pass off the scrum means Wales will have the put-in on halfway, right in the middle of the pitch. An opportunity to build something? I’m predicting Roberts to take the ball from Webb and smash …

Nope, nearly but Roberts pops an inside pass to Halfpenny. It was telegraphed though but Wales will try again.

52 mins: Wales are improved in the second half. If there is to be any way back though they must score next. And they must do it soon. They’ll need the ball to do that though and after Joubert gets in Phipps’ way, it stays in Australian hands. Scrum time once more.

50 mins: Very scrappy. But we’ll come back for a Welsh knock-on. Scrum time.

49 mins: Wales eventually clear their lines, Webb boots it out near halfway so it’ll be an Australia lineout. Better from Wales, working the ball from one side of the pitch to the other. Moriarty – Wales’s best player by a distance – makes a thumping hit on Phipps and things are getting scrappy for Australia.

47 mins: Wales still have it, through Cuthbert up the middle, then Halfpenny, on the left but isolated. Tipuric charges again. Wales are into the Australia half now, and up to the 10-metre line. Quick hands find North on the right but he runs out of room, and Australia turn it over …

46 mins: Wales win it back, Moriarty collects and Biggar launches one for Cuthbert to chase but Haylett-Petty collects with effortless ease. Moore blusters up the middle but Tipuric picks off a Foley offload – a chance for Wales to attack but Williams is stopped in his tracks.

44 mins: Wales make a mess of the lineout and after a scrappy period of play, North is adjudged to have taken the ball out so it’s an Australia lineout just inside the Wales half on the left.

43 mins: Australia are into the Wales 22, threatening try No4 but Wales are let off the hook when Australia are penalised for crossing. Biggar kicks to halfway in a notably quiet Principality Stadium.

42 mins: Tipuric finds himself on the right wing … Wales are at least hanging on to the ball but they look so ponderous in comparison to Australia. Halfpenny injects a bit of life as Cuthbert pops up on the left wing but they’ve made precisely no metres and Australia force the turnover.

41 mins: Biggar kicks us off. Scott Fardy is on for Pocock … a glimmer a light for Wales. Phipps kicks long so Wales have it near halfway.

Australia are back out for the second half … Wales follow promptly, ears still ringing.

Half-time! Wales 3-20 Australia

The decline of Australian rugby has been greatly exaggerated. Any suggestions that the Wallabies were there for the taking, that, New Zealand apart, the north were closing in on the south, have proved to be utter poppycock. Australia have played with a speed and accuracy that Wales simply cannot live with. Some of the Wales defending has been abject but the Wallabies have toyed with the hosts.

They’ve scored three excellent tries through Moore, Hodge and Kuridrani and if Foley – who has been magical with ball in hand – had his shooting boots on it could be worse. Wales should have seen it coming. Michael Cheika warned that Australia would be targeting the breakdown and the speed at which they are recycling possession is meat and drink for Phipps and Foley. Wales are defending too narrow and Folau, Hodge and Kuridrani are having a field day.

Positives for Wales? They should be further behind. Much further. They can’t be as bad as this in the second half, can they? Shaun Edwards will be reading the riot act at present and Wales always begin the autumn rusty right? A rousing comeback is possible, then … Hmmm.

40 mins: Biggar boots long and then fields the return from Haylett-Petty. Webb has a dart in his own half but doesn’t get very far so Biggar goes long again and picks out Folau. Australia are on the march again. This could be curtains for Wales … it isn’t though, Foley gets to five metres out but the ball hits the deck. And breathe.

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38 mins: Folau sashays his way into the Wales half and Australia are on the front foot again. A bit of respite for Wales though, they’ve got advantage. Rather tellingly though, Craig Joubert says ‘always going backwards’ so we’ll be back for a scrum.

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Conversion! (Foley 36) Wales 3-20 Australia

36 mins: Foley finally finds his range, nailing the hardest of the three conversions. Wales often look rusty at the start of the autumn but defensively they have been awful, as impressive as Australia have been.

Try! (Kuridrani 35) Wales 3-18 Australia

35 mins: Temani carries Australia over the 22 though and some more stardust from Foley finds Kuridrani who throws a dummy and cruises over into the corner. Too easy. Far too easy. Shaun Edwards will be seething.

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34 mins: From the resulting lineout, Australia have won another penalty and again Hodge, who has an enormous right boot, finds touch. He hasn’t quite reached the Wales 22 though but Australia will threaten again.

32 mins: A first aerial bomb from Biggar and it causes Foley all manner of problems. He can’t hold it and Wales pile forward. A little overeagerly though and North gives away a penalty with Australia under pressure.

31 mins: But Halfpenny is off target. That’s a bad miss from Halfpenny when Wales really could have done with the points.

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30 mins: The contrast in styles of attack is remarkable. Wales are not exactly subtle about it but they have earned a penalty – Kepu pinged for being offside. Halfpenny will go at goal …

29 mins: Rare possession now for Wales. Roberts carries, so does Davies, and Williams – they’re going backwards though.

28 mins: Foley shoves his conversion again so the difference is 10 points.

Try! (Hodge 27) Wales 3-13 Australia

27 mins: Oh the irony! Biggar was on again for a matter of seconds and Hodge races through after an inside ball from Foley, who gives it Folau on the left, gets it back and races clear to the line. Hodge was been excellent so far and fully deserves that score.

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26 mins: At the risk of sounding like a broken record, you can’t help but feel that New Zealand would have taken some of these opportunities that Australia are passing up. And another free-kick for Wales at scrum time means Halfpenny kicks to halfway. Biggar returns with the score the same as when he left. Somehow.

24 mins: It’s quick ball for Australia though – a story of the match so far – and Hodge carves through the Welsh defence, denied only by a great tackle from Halfpenny.

23 mins: The inevitable delay at the scrum is ended when Australia are awarded a free-kick. Brian Moore is unsurprisingly not amused. Nor is Jonathan Davies, not least when Australia opt for a scrum.

21 mins: Australia get more quick ball from the lineout and look so threatening with ball in hand. Wales are scrambling but Australia let them off the kook with a forward pass. Again Wales are in no rush to get on with the scrum.

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20 mins: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Australia slice through Welsh defence with such effortless ease. There are few better sights than a Wallabies attack in full flow. The problem for them is that Haylett-Petty knocks on with the try-line beckoning. A real clanger. And Wales clear from a free-kick at scrum time.

18 mins: Wales are in no rush to get on with the scrum, understandably. Moriarty picks and goes and makes a few metres and then Cuthbert gets up towards the 22. Webb’s kick is charged down but Halfpenny mops up expertly. Wales still haven’t cleared their lines though … now they have so we’ll have an Australia scrum near Wales’s 10-metre line.

17 mins: Yowsers. The Beeb have just flashed up the possession stats – it’s currently 91% in favour of the Wallabies. But a bit of good news for Wales, they’ve successful defended the lineout drive and will indeed have the put-in to the scrum on their five-metre line. Small mercies.

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Yellow card! (Biggar)

16 mins: Wales are defending very narrowly and Folau ghosts down the right, throws a gorgeous dummy then passes to Haylett-Petty who was tackled far too early by Biggar. It’s a penalty, Biggar is surely going to the bin. North is covering round though so it may not be a penalty try …

Yep, no try but Biggar will spend 10 minutes in the bin. This has not been a good start from Wales and Australia, scenting blood, will kick to the corner.

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15 mins: Folau makes ground, then Kuridrani follows suit but his offload goes to no one in particular. Wales clear, after a first carry from North, but Australia come again.

14 mins: And because Foley’s clearance, after another long kick-off from Wales, touched red on the way out, they’ll have to wait a while yet to get their hands on the ball. Especially as Haylett-Petty collects Phipps’s high kick. Australia have it 10 metres into the Wales half.

13 mins: Foley pushes the conversion so the gap stays at five … Wales haven’t really got going yet.

Try! (Moore 12) Wales 3-8 Australia

11 mins: Moriarty is getting treatment but we’re back underway as Foley kicks to the corner. Tails are up so it’s not surprising and the penalty would have been near the touchline. Australia get the lineout drive going – and that’s textbook. Moore finishes off, he scored a try almost identical to that against England over the summer. Australia have deserved that.

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10 mins: Moriarty looks in the mood as well and makes a thunderous tackle on Sio. Phipps floats a pass left though but Speight can’t get there. Tipuric has been penalised though – so Foley looks for another kick to the right, Haylett-Petty is in space but the kick is too long, frustratingly for those with money of Haylett-Petty to score the first try.

Already though, just 10 minutes in, Australia look dangerous with ball in hand. Did we expect anything else?

9 mins: Australia have a penalty advantage near halfway but keep going through the phases and another delightful crossfield kick from Foley finds Haylett-Petty on the right. Australia work it back to the left – Foley looks in the mood – and Australia are about seven metres out.

Penalty! (Halfpenny 7) Wales 3-3 Australia

6 mins: Wales go deep from the restart and win a penalty at the breakdown – Gethin Jenkins latches on and there’s no shifting him when he’s in position.

It’s Halfpenny on kicking duties, which feels a touch harsh on Biggar but they who would argue against Halfpenny? Anyway, Halfpenny nails it – he couldn’t really miss.

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Penalty! (Foley 5) Wales 0-3 Australia

5 mins: And Foley makes no mistake from the right.

4 mins: After a bit of deliberation Foley will go at goal.

3 mins: … who finds Kuridrani with a delightful pass. Australia 10 metres out now. Advantage Australia, and Foley wasn’t looking so the ball goes to ground.

2 mins: Hooper carries Australia up to halfway – Roberts makes a thumping hit and Webb follows suit. Australia still have it but they’re not making much ground – until Foley kicks over the top and finds Folau …

1 min: Foley kicks us off and Folau cannot gather cleanly so Wales have it – Biggar kicks deep and out of play, which is rare for him. Australia lineout on their 10-metre line.

Wales are wearing black armbands, in memory of Alun Wyn Jones’s father, and to mark the anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, have ‘Aberfan 116-28. 21-10.1966’ embroidered on to their shirts.

Now then, now then. Kick-off is nearly upon us so it’s time to make wild predictions that will inevitably be wide of the mark. Wales’s personnel would suggest we know what we’re going to get but if Tipuric is heavily involved it may not be quite so attritional as we expect.

Australia meanwhile, with Pooper in the back row, are likely to adopt similar tactics to the Rugby World Cup – that is, win the breakdown contest, win the match. Wales often start the autumn internationals slowly but Australia are short on confidence, oh it’s going to close …

Anthems time momentarily – and the one prediction I’m going to get right is that Wales will win this one.

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Drink responsibly …

Every time commentary mention "fireworks in Cardiff", "sparks flying" and so on, that's worth at least 2 sips. #WALvAUS #Nov5

— Dai Lama (@WelshDalaiLama) November 5, 2016

Delilah is echoing around the Millennium Principality Stadium as the players finalise their warm-ups. It appears Wales will be wearing red, rather than ‘TV fuzz grey’, which is a relief; Australia the usual.

Oh my! The BBC has outdone itself here, Jeremy Guscott is talking tactics during a montage of Wales highlights, and he’s superimposed on the pitch. It looks … weird. But I think I like it …

Moving swiftly on … and time for a bet I think. Money staked (thrown down the toilet) … Haylet-Petty first try and, as a separate bet, the draw (which I am already regretting).

In other news, the sun is out and the roof is off and Australia have won the toss and opted to kick off.

Just a reminder that as the draw for the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be done following next year’s Six Nations – the autumn fixtures take on added significance. At present Australia are third and Wales are fifth and know what happens if they slip out of the top eight. Your MBM-er has a particular pet peeve when it comes to Pools of Death however – namely the hypocrisy of patronisingly championing Tier Two nations every four years so long as they don’t upset the hegemony of the supposed elite eight – so that’s as much coverage as I’ll be giving world rankings.

Australia team

Michael Cheika has often spoken of the need to broaden Australia’s talent pool and the travelling party to Europe, which will play five Tests in consecutive weeks, reflects that – as does his team selection to an extent.

The front five however is unchanged from the side that lost 37-10 to New Zealand last time out with Stephen Moore captaining the side from hooker with Scott Sio and Sekope Kepu either side and Rory Arnold joining Adam Coleman in the second row. David Pocock is at blindside, Michael Hooper at openside – Cheika has spoken about the importance of the breakdown – and man mountain Lopeti Timani is at No8.

Nick Phipps is at scrum-half, Bernard Foley at No10 but it is the centres, where Reece Hodge joins Tevita Kuridrani for the first time that gives Australia a fresh look. Dane Haylett-Petty’s stock continues to rise and he starts on the right wing, Fijian flyer Henry Speight on the left while Israel Folau is at full-back, ready to deal with Dan Biggar’s bombs.

The #Wallabies 23 to take on @WelshRugbyUnion on Sunday morning (AEDT). #StrongerAsOne #WALvAUS pic.twitter.com/aytd5fiyjR

— Qantas Wallabies (@qantaswallabies) November 5, 2016

Wales team – late change

And speaking of the teams … Wales have been forced into a late change with Jonathan Davies ruled out with tight hamstring, meaning Scott Williams comes into the starting XV – not a bad replacement.

Gethin Jenkins captains Wales on his 132nd international appearance and packs down with Ken Owens and Samson Lee – two Scarlets team-mates. Alun Wyn Jones is absent following the recent death of his father so Luke Charteris is joined by Bradley Davies in the boiler room and with Sam Warburton getting up to speed with the Blues last night (and a late turnover that effectively sealed the win in Treviso suggests he’s getting there) Justin Tipuric wears the No7 jersey with Dan Lydiate at blindside and Ross Moriarty running out at No8 in the absence of the injured Taulupe Faletau.

Behind the scrum there’s a familiar look, despite Jonathan Davies’ withdrawal. Rob Howley has opted against throwing Sam Davies in at fly-half so Dan Biggar continues with his fellow Osprey Rhys Webb at half-back. Alex Cuthbert returns to the wing after missing the New Zealand tour with George North on the other wing and Halfpenny at full-back.

The bench is as you were – Williams was not originally in the matchday 23.

Wales squad update: Scott Williams (who was 25th man) comes into starting XV for Jonathan Davies who has a tight hamstring #WalvAus pic.twitter.com/tLEbYifdbF

— Welsh Rugby Union 🏉 (@WelshRugbyUnion) November 5, 2016

Preamble

Hello world! And once more unto the breach for Wales, who kick-off the home nations’ autumn internationals against Australia, looking to end a run of 11 straight defeats by the Wallabies, the last 10 of which have been by a single-figure margin. Ouch.

Oh the heartbreak they have felt against the men in green and gold. Kurtley Beale’s last-gasp try in 2012 – and the added ignominy of Nathan Sharpe taking the conversion – or the series Down Under earlier that year when late penalties from Berwick Barnes and Mike Harris condemned them to consecutive narrow defeats.

Of course there’s also last year’s World Cup pool encounter when Wales failed to break down the Wallabies’ defence despite playing against 13 men for nearly 10 minutes before Bernard Foley kicked Australia clear with Welsh spirits crushed.

The good news for Welsh fans is that over the summer in New Zealand there were signs that a move away from Warrenball was beginning to pay off. They led at half-time in the first Test in Eden Park and but for a terrible pass from Sam Warburton to Talupe Faletau in the second the All Blacks may not have won the series quite so convincingly.

The bad news for Welsh fans is that Liam Williams, such a threat in New Zealand, is missing through injury but that does mean Leigh Halfpenny makes a long-awaited return and does at least mean Rob Howley does not have a tricky decision to make at full-back. Speaking of Howley, the last time he took charge of Wales, England were the visitors in 2013 and that didn’t end too badly.

Australia meanwhile, have just lost the Bledisloe Cup series 3-0 to New Zealand and although they were much improved in the most recent defeat, the All Blacks, as is their wont, streaked clear in the final quarter. Victory at Twickenham over Argentina did mean Michael Cheika’s men finished second in the Rugby Championship but they have arrived in the UK a weaker side than the one that reached last summer’s World Cup final.

I’ll have teams for you shortly but in the meantime, read Paul Rees’ preview of a match which is sure to go the wire again.

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