Australia’s never say die attitude keeps Wales from topping group

When the Wallabies were reduced to 13 men they played as if their families’ lives depended on them not letting Wales cross their lineAn ugly bloody match, this, and glorious for it. Suffocatingly tight throughout and defined, in the end, by seven minutes of furious play in the middle of the second half. During it, Australia, down to 13 men, defended their try-line as though their families’ lives depended on their keeping the Welsh from crossing it. And how the Welsh tried, wave after wave of attack, in every which way they knew how. From scrums and lineouts, from forwards and backs, from blind…