- Title: "Wales defence gone up another level" says Wallabies Beale ahead of crunch match
- Date: 25th September 2019
- Summary: NEWS CONFERENCE UNDERWAY WITH UTILITY BACK KURTLEY BEALE (SITTING LEFT) AND LOCK RORY ARNOLD (SITTING RIGHT) ARNOLD'S FEET BEALE SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIA RUGBY TEAM UTILITY BACK, KURTLEY BEALE, SAYING: "As a player you always look forward to playing Wales. As nations we bring the best out of each other. They're always great contest and I think we have a lot of respect for each other as well so..." NEWS CONFERENCE UNDERWAY WITH UTILITY BACK KURTLEY BEALE (SITTING LEFT) AND LOCK RORY ARNOLD (SITTING RIGHT) (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIA RUGBY TEAM UTILITY BACK, KURTLEY BEALE, SAYING: "I feel like their defence has gone up another level, and I think over the tournament all teams are focusing on their defence so it's going to be a little bit harder to crack and so I think it places more importance on holding onto the ball, building pressure that way and hopefully matching them with fitness, it's always going to go down to the wire, we know that, and we're prepared for that." NEWS CONFERENCE GOING ON WITH ASSISTANT COACH NATHAN SHARPE AND TWO OTHER PLAYERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIA RUGBY TEAM ASSISTANT COACH, NATHAN SHARPE, SAYING: "Yeah, quite significant, obviously they've got themselves to, during the year, to number 1 in the world so they're certainly going to present a lot of different options for us, they've got a very consistent team that they've been picking for a long period of time so the threats are certainly there across the park." NEWS CONFERENCE UNDERWAY WALLABIES LOGO REPORTER TAKING PICTURE (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIA RUGBY TEAM ASSISTANT COACH, NATHAN SHARPE, SAYING: "As I said we're certainly focused on letting the process go about, you'd be crazy as a management not to manage both ways so whether he's going to be, whether he's not, we'll be ready to go." NEWS CONFERENCE ENDING
- Embargoed: 9th October 2019 07:27
- Keywords: Australia Wales Rugby World Cup Japan 2019
- Location: URAYASU, JAPAN
- City: URAYASU, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Rugby Union,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA002AY5LWE7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Wallabies utility back Kurtley Beale said Wales had got stronger on the defence ahead of the crunch Pool D match against Wales this weekend.
With both sides having opened their campaigns with victories, Sunday's match in Tokyo should decide which of them tops the pool and gets an easier run through the knockout stage.
Australia worked out in the gym on the day winger Reece Hodge was due to face a judicial panel over a dangerous tackle he carried out in the Wallabies opening World Cup match against Fiji.
Assistant coach Nathan Sharpe told reporters they would be prepared to face Wales at the weekend whatever the outcome.
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