a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TAt3MRt0ogI/AAAAAAAAEN0/UA97oCVRpRo/s1600/aus-fiji-june-2010.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TAt3MRt0ogI/AAAAAAAAEN0/UA97oCVRpRo/s400/aus-fiji-june-2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479604424424071682" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"The Wallabies put a slow start behind them as they picked up a gear in the second half to outclass Fiji with a 49-3 win in Canberra. The Wallabies gave starts to five new players, who repaid the faith by turning it on later in the game. /spanbr /br /The last time Australia lost to Fiji was in 1954, so the odds on favourites knew that they’d just need to click as a unit and the game would be theirs, despite the fighting talk from the Fijians earlier in the week.br /br /Fiji, a tiny country with naturally gifted athletes, have to cope with the majority of their players being based in France and the UK, which proves to be a logistical nightmare at times. They fielded a decent side though, and had the much talked about Rupeni Caucau back in their ranks.br /br /It was a scrappy first half that ended 14-3 to the Wallabies, but the hosts gelled better in the second, where they scored seven tries and managed to hold off the Fijian attack.br /br /"The second half was great - it was the 80 minutes we had to have basically," said coach Robbie Deans.br /br /"Adjusting to test rugby, getting some cohesion within the group, adjusting to the conditions, getting our body position down because test rugby is different from Super 14.br /br /"The boys worked their way through the challenges they had really well and we started to play some good rugby in the second half - a lot more composed, a lot more direct.br /br /"We go into a test match next week against the English where we know it's going to be for real. And we're much better for that outing without a doubt," Deans added.br /br /They did however lose prop Ben Alexander to a knee injury which was apparently a grade two medial ligament tear, meaning he’ll play no part in their upcoming Test matches against England and Ireland.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B1Qfzq9d8x8amp;hl=en_GBamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B1Qfzq9d8x8amp;hl=en_GBamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time:/span 05:00/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-321632442687634223?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=F21Zr1URb_0:PCyu1WQY4Qg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/F21Zr1URb_0" height="1" width="1"/ More...