Australia's players celebrate their dramatic victory over the All Blacks in Hong Kong
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Mick Cleary of the Daily Telegraph argues that rugby's new zeitgeist is, 'Bold is in, caution is out.'
"Wimps will not prosper. Teams who sit back, play the percentages and wait for mistakes will be left in the slipstream of the turbocharged southern superpowers. That was the clear message coming from Hong Kong on Saturday as the Wallabies managed to pockmark the armour of the seemingly dent-proof All Blacks.
"It may have taken a nerveless conversion from baby-faced Australian wing James O’Connor, the last act of a breathless game, to seal the 26-24 win but it was as if he had landed his boot in New Zealand’s nether regions so deflating was the outcome for Kiwis the world over.
"Australia deserved their moment of exultation (their first victory against the All Blacks in 11 Tests) for the simple reason that they refused to wither and fade. They came, and they came again, chancing their arm with slick, fast and often unstructured rugby."
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