{"id":247568,"date":"2022-10-29T21:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T21:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=247568"},"modified":"2022-10-30T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:59:45","slug":"coachs-confusion-amid-great-wallabies-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=247568","title":{"rendered":"Coach&#039;s confusion amid great Wallabies escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Rennie feared the worst after Blair Kinghorn\ufeff struck the ball towards the posts.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There was a helluva lot of noise in the crowd and I thought it was over. There was either a lot of Aussies or a lot of drunk Scotsmen in the stands,&quot; Rennie said.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Kinghorn&#x27;s 80th minute penalty\ufeff was struck wide left at Murrayfield, allowing Rennie&#x27;s Wallabies <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/2022-wallabies-beat-scotland-at-murrayfield-as-blair-kinghorn-misses-late-penalty\/8907719e-90f5-4297-a52c-19decdcf3132\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"to escape with a desperately needed 16-15 win over Scotland\">to escape with a desperately needed 16-15 win over Scotland<\/a> that will catapult them from ninth to sixth when the next world rankings are released.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch every match of the Wallabies, All Blacks and Springboks spring tours on the home of rugby, Stan Sport.<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/KRnrlm\"><em><strong>All matches streaming ad-free, live and on demand<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6314600792112\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/463272\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Scotland lock dodges a bullet\" data-vms-id=\"ref:cl9uc7uyb000p0qp84k2lxnmy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia fought back from a 15-6 \ufeffdeficit to snap a three-game losing streak against Gregor Townsend&#x27;s Scots.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We managed to hang on. We got ourselves into a little bit of a hole after halftime but we showed lot of character and fought hard for each other,&quot; coach Rennie said.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland scored two tries to Australia&#x27;s one &#8211; via the unlikely James Slipper &#8211; but Bernard Foley produced enough points from his right boot to get the job done.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/news-all-blacks-beat-japan-brodie-retalick-facing-ban-after-red-card\/39ad9281-2bca-4575-a664-6fc2ebd27058\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Red carded All Black lock&#x27;s tour under threat\"><strong>Red carded All Black lock&#x27;s tour under threat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/t20-world-cup-2022-glenn-phillips-century-video-new-zealand-v-sri-lanka-match-result\/0bc6769a-459d-4241-87fd-bdafa4de20d5\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Spent Kiwi staggers off after &#x27;phenomenal&#x27; ton\"><strong>Spent Kiwi staggers off after &#x27;phenomenal&#x27; ton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/horse-racing\/victoria-derby-day-2022-winner-results-manzoice-sharp-n-smart-aberfield-boy-my-maestro\/44ed48b6-de1d-472c-a67a-4df36bcd308b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Huge upset as icon&#x27;s horse claims Victoria Derby\ufeff\"><strong>Huge upset as icon&#x27;s horse claims Victoria Derby\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6314601660112\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/463273\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Kinghorn wins epic foot race\" data-vms-id=\"ref:cl9ucfd30000m0qmpt38xooyv\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;ve worked really hard. It&#x27;s pleasing to get the tour off with a win but we&#x27;ve got a lot more in us. We have to be a lot more clinical when we&#x27;re down their end,&quot; Rennie said.<\/p>\n<p>The next stop on the five match spring tour is a daunting assignment against world No.2 France.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m proud of the effort because at 15-6 we&#x27;d given up a soft try straight after halftime but we fought our way back in and put our nose in front,&quot; Rennie said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"170755c2-bf05-42e5-8222-86cfceda72ec\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/170755c2-bf05-42e5-8222-86cfceda72ec\" alt=\"Blair Kinghorn of Scotland reacts after missing a game winning penalty.\" data-width=\"2730\" data-height=\"1815\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We can be a lot better. We had a lot of possession inside their 22 we didn&#x27;t convert and we knew Scotland were very good post-tackle and got their hand on the ball so we know we have to better against France&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was pretty tough to watch that last kick when I heard the crowd going off.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tough game &#8211; it could have gone either way. It gives us a little bit of confidence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"c64da5a6-0405-4be8-8c72-2ce41d99a399\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c64da5a6-0405-4be8-8c72-2ce41d99a399\" alt=\"Dave Rennie after the final whistle.\" data-width=\"4800\" data-height=\"3200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All Blacks legend Andrew Mehrtens summed it up well.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Not a great performance but it&#x27;s a great one to come through like that with a bit of character,&quot; Mehrtens said on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When the Wallabies came off they were embracing, high fiving and jubilant like it it&#x27;d been a World Cup playoff match. They were under no illusions, they were looking down the barrel.&quot;\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dave Rennie feared the worst after Blair Kinghorn\ufeff struck the ball towards the posts. &quot;There was a helluva lot of noise in the crowd and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=247568\" title=\"Coach&#039;s confusion amid great Wallabies escape\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247570,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247568\/revisions\/247570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}