Writing in The Australian, Wayne Smith says Robbie Deans and the Wallabies must not rest in the three weeks before they face South Africa as they look to get their Tri-Nations campaign back on track.
"Satisfying as it always is watching New Zealanders and South Africans inflicting pain on each other on the rugby field, Robbie Deans and the Wallabies can ill-afford to idly waste this lull in the battle. A strategy must be formulated to beat the Boks in Cape Town on August 8, then a team picked to implement it.
"It may be that the All Blacks will expose some weaknesses in the South African team that the British and Irish Lions weren't able to illuminate, but it was clear by the end of the recent series that the Lions wanted to avoid kicking for touch at all costs.
"Any lineout ball won within 20m of the opposition line inevitably finds its way to the back of the Springbok rolling maul and the Green Machine begins to rumble."
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