SYDNEY (Reuters) - With rugby union in Australia suffering a crisis of confidence, nothing less than a handsome victory for the Wallabies will suffice when they take on Italy in Brisbane on Saturday. "I'm not saying we're going to be perfect, but we're going to be doing our best to show what our supporters want," he said. Cheika also overhauled his team, which opened the test window by thrashing Fiji 37-14, with six changes including the return at hooker of captain Stephen Moore. Italy have brought an inexperienced squad to the southern hemisphere and coach Conor O'Shea made three changes to the side that lost 22-19 in Suva last weekend. "We know how tough this is going to be - the Wallabies on a backlash - but we’ll get up and ... take the game to them," O'Shea said.

Source: The Star June 23, 2017 03:00 UTC