The hosts were taken apart by a magnificent display from a young Australia team – none of the starting XV was older than 27 – more than justifying the persistence with youth, under considerable fire, of coach Robbie Deans.
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Wales 12 Australia 33: Hosts taken apart as grim days return
Welsh rugby lives in eternal hope of a return to the past, but to the glories of the great days of the 1970s, not this sort of reminder of the grim 1990s when Wales were there for the taking against southern hemisphere opposition, conceding 260 points in six meetings with Australia between 1991 and 1996.
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