Wallabies fullback Israel Folau slices through Argentina's defence at Gigante de Arroyito Stadium in Rosario. Source: Juan Mabromata / AFP
EWEN McKenzie says the seven-try Rosario rout against Argentina was "only just scratching around the edges'' of the full attacking potential of the new Wallabies.
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It went from the sublime to the redemptive in a memorable morning of rugby on Sunday morning, when the Wallabies followed up the All Blacks' classic victory over the Springboks by posting a record win over Los Pumas.
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Israel Folau scored a hat-trick in the Wallabies' victory, which saw an assortment of monkeys shaken off backs of the men in gold jerseys.
In tallying up their highest ever score against Argentina, the Wallabies finally took the covers off the attacking style McKenzie has been struggling to implement since taking over three months ago.
With a superb forward performance laying the platform, hard and straight running from Folau and Joe Tomane tore open the Pumas defence, and better handling could have even seen more than seven tries scored.
After averaging one try per game for the last 24 Tests, however, seven was a drastic increase and was Australia's most since a 10-try romp against Russia in 2011. It was even the first time in two years the Wallabies scored four or more tries.
McKenzie said the performance was ``closer'' to the style he'd like to have his side playing, but Rosario was a long way off the Wallabies laying down their best hand.
"We still missed opportunities and made errors but we're getting better. You saw a lot of the spirit of how we'd like to play, there was some adventure there, we mixed the game up and we showed toughness,'' McKenzie said.
"It was more characteristic of how we'd like to play.
"In terms of pattern of play we're only just scratching around the edges yet. There's a bunch of things we haven't got to yet because we're still trying to bed a few things down.
"I felt it was a better effort. In the end you've got to be able run, got to be able to bend the line, break tackles, and we started do all that.''
After over-wrought attempts to run against the All Blacks and Springboks failed, and a kicking strategy in Cape Town did too, McKenzie said the team re-visited their strategies in training last week and pared the gameplan back.
"Fundamentally we want to run and carry the ball to the opposition and I thought we did that with great purpose,'' McKenzie said.
"We didn't come into the game as the favourites so to come here and get a record score line was a very good effort.''
The victory, which was described as a massive ``confidence booster'' for the Wallabies by skipper James Horwill, has the potential to unlock further growth in a team previously lacking majorly in self-belief.
McKenzie said he could feel the tension in the dressing room pre-match.
"I said to them on the field afterward you can be confronted with the pressure and the nerves and you can shrink or put it to one side and get out there and express yourself,'' he said.
"It's pleasing that they expressed themselves in the face of a fair bit of pressure rather than shrink and say it's all too hard so I was quite pleased with the character shown.''
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