The Sydney Morning Herald's Greg Growden believes there have been more questions than answers on the Wallabies current tour.
"And so Deans finds himself on another end-of-season tour, attempting to douse bushfires. In recent years, northern hemisphere Wallabies tours have not been simple, confidence-building affairs. Instead, they have regularly conjured up new dilemmas, especially last year when the tour went off the rails in Edinburgh, where the Wallabies suffered an inexplicable loss to an average Scotland outfit. How they lost that night at Murrayfield is still among Australian rugby's most baffling questions.
"A year on, there is the potential for this tour to take the same negative path, and it will require enormous willpower from Deans and his players to ensure that doesn't happen in the final two weeks when they meet Italy and France - neither of whom are easybeat opponents.
"What is most disconcerting about this tour is that it began in such spectacular fashion when the Wallabies defeated the All Blacks in Hong Kong. It has since undergone a now customary slump with a loss to England at Twickenham, followed by the Wallabies B team being completely overwhelmed by Munster in Limerick.
"It was an extremely subdued group that arrived in Florence on Wednesday night, after a spectacular flight across the French Alps."
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