Wallabies beaten again
NZPA Bridgend The Australian Wallabies slumped to the second defeat of their British tour when they lost, 9-12, to the Welsh club champion side, Bridgend, in a Brewery Field mud heap at Bridgend yesterday. The Australians scored the only try of the match but paid dearly for not having a reliable kicker in the absence of Paul McLean. , Between them, the captain, Michael Hawker, and the first five-eighths, Mark Ella,
landed only two goals from six attempts. - All of Bridgend’s points came from the boot of its international five-eighths, Gary Pearce, who landed four penalties. The Victorian prop, John Meadows, scored the Wallabies’ only try in the fifteenth minute after a brilliant inside break by the fullback, Glen Ella. Haw’ker converted and Mark Ella added the Wallabies’ other points with a second-half penalty.
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Press, 30 October 1981, Page 28
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