Rugby Australia boss expects three Wallaby wins
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Rugby Australia's boss Raelene Castle has set the bar high for the Wallabies for their end of year tour to Europe, saying there is "no reason" they can't win all three Tests in Europe this month.
Castle said wins against Wales, Italy and England was the bar Michael Cheika and the team had set for themselves after a disappointing Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship campaign.
Rejecting talk of a "pass mark" for Australia, she said three wins were achievable.
"They are determined to go there and win all three games. That's the start point, the pass mark from their perspective, that's the expectation that Michael's setting for them," Castle said.
"There's no reason they can't do that. They would be very confident that they can come home with three wins."
Castle said the team's 37-20 loss to the All Blacks was disappointing but contained some positives that Cheika had targeted in his pre-tour briefing to the Rugby Australia board.
"The great thing about the third test was we saw some improvements, some things they'd identified they were concerned with," she said.
"I'm not justifying the result, we all wanted to win, but if you think about building in to a World Cup there were some very specific improvements, around defensive patterns and things I know they had targeted, that Michael had said was important for that game."
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