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Wallabies starting to click, but harder tests than an abject Wales team await

It may be suggested that there was a degree of revenge in the air in Cardiff. But for the Wallabies, a thoroughly professional, albeit emphatic 52-20 victory in Cardiff over the team that destroyed their World Cup hopes a year ago, felt different. Wallabies thrash Wales Photo shows Tom Wright runs with the ball The Wallabies have hammered Wales 52-20, avenging their Rugby World Cup defeat 13 months prior and plunging the proud rugby nation into further chaos. With the world champion Springboks due next week, at a Principality stadium where the atmosphere is increasingly frosty, 2024 appears set to join 1937 as a year that Welsh rugby would rather forget ever happened. Those tries may have illustrated the way the Wallabies want to play, but Len Ikitau's score, when he couldn't have bamboozled poor Cameron Winnett more if he had tied his boot laces together.

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