Wallabies better prepared for All Blacks - McKenzie


  • Rugby
  • Thursday, 07 Aug 2014

Australia's Wallabies rugby team captain Michael Hooper (R) smiles beside coach Ewen McKenzie during an official team photograph before their training session in Sydney June 20, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Reed

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Ewen McKenzie chuckles when he recalls the baptism of fire in international coaching he underwent last year when Australia took on New Zealand in back-to-back tests to open the Rugby Championship.

Two defeats followed and the Wallabies went on to lose the third Bledisloe Cup test to their trans-Tasman Sea rivals, all the optimism about how McKenzie might change Australian fortunes buried under the weight of All Blacks tries.

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