Wallabies halfback Nic White says there have been positives to seek out in Australia’s loss to South Africa

Some will say they’re clutching at straws however the Wallabies have discovered a silver lining to their 43-12 Rugby Championship mauling by the hands of Springboks.

“It sort of exhibits how far off the mark we’re,” halfback Nic White mentioned of the pounding in Pretoria that has despatched coach Eddie Jones again to the drafting board.

“It is nonetheless a bitter capsule to swallow … we’re not the place we need to be — a great distance off truly.

“There was no sugar-coating, we had been straight into it after the sport in areas that we weren’t as much as scratch. We have to discover solutions.

“Issues did not go to plan. A little bit of a baptism of fireside on the market. They are a bloody good aspect, confirmed why they’re world champs and present World Cup holders.”

The honeymoon is effectively and actually over for Jones, the coach with the Midas contact who many billed because the saviour when Rugby Australia parachuted the 63-year-old in to switch the sacked Dave Rennie in January.

From failing to seek out contact from penalties to kicking out on the total normally play, turning over low cost possession and having two gamers yellow carded, White conceded your entire Wallabies efficiency was a horror present.

“However there have been some positives on the market,” White mentioned.

“I do know it is exhausting to listen to that proper now however we have been collectively as a squad of 35 for, like, 5 periods earlier than that.

“There have been some issues that we had been effectively wanting and we all know that now.

“I am not making excuses, however we’re nonetheless discovering a little bit of readability in the best way we need to play.

“We had been going up in opposition to the world champs there, a crew that is been collectively beneath the identical workers, the identical group of gamers, for like eight years.

“They’ve actual readability in the best way they need to play the sport and it is bloody exhausting to cease.”

Jones has 4 extra Assessments to decide on his squad for the World Cup, and followers will study on Thursday if he makes wholesale adjustments for Saturday’s conflict with the Michael Cheika-coached Argentina in Sydney.