Yes Australia lost, but this was a young side staring down 80,000 raging fans and a French team that will most likely end up as world champions.
NoiseEverywhere you look, throughout, there are shattered shards of red, white, blue, gold and all other colours, crashing into each other with no rhyme or reason to season, and the sound is so strong you moreAs the Wallabies step onto the field, side by side with their French opponents – all of them holding hands with wide-eyed French kids coming from all over for the occasion – more than 80,000 spectators rise to their feet and cheer for a full three minutes.
And, mes amis, this is where the kaleidoscope truly came into play, because I was not taking notes, just registering impressions., spinning it wide, charging it up the guts, ripping into them, bouncing off the ropes and giving them another one up the guts for good measure ... and we are not even two minutes gone.of these French in return.
Carter Gordon, the newbie fly-half that the woman on my far left called “Mr Mullet”? True, in the first half he couldn’t have kicked a barn door closed from a metre out, but he nevertheless showed glimpses of what he will become – a jewel in the Australian rugby crown. He is not a champion yet, but he certainly has the poise and makings of one.
At one point in the second half, it was as if the French had smuggled Andrew Johns onto the field to unleash a blistering array of kicks, nearly as accurate as quarterback passes – right to the corners where French wingers lurked with intent. Time and again, the French either scored or nearly did. For a bit, it looked like our cats on a curtain would be blown out of the window.
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