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Can the Wallabies avoid a 126-year low?
Nicholas Quinlan • November 17th, 2025 2:59 pm
Corey Parker has slammed the Wallabies following their performances in their Spring Tour, which has them hurtling to a 126-year low.
After winning their tour warm-up game gainst Eddie Jones’ Japan, the national team has followed that with three bad losses against England, Italy and Ireland.
Their latest result against the Irish was by far their worst, having lost 46-19 in Dublin on Sunday.
And to make matters worse, it was one of their own who inflicted the worst of it, with Canberra-born and former Australian U20 representative Mack Hansen scoring three of Ireland’s six tries as the starting fullback.
Following these dismal results, Australia’s chances of landing in Band 1 for the 2027 Rugby World Cup draw have gone completely adrift, being 2.61 ranking points away from sixth-place Argentina, which will create an extra challenge for their campaign.
With only one more Test for 2025 against France, Parker noted that another loss would see the Wallabies achieve a feat that they haven’t done since the team started in 1899.
“Never in 126 years have the Wallabies lost 10 Tests in a calendar year,” Parker said on SENQ Breakfast.
“We’re on the verge of slipping to eighth in the World Rankings.
“We lost to Argentina this year in Sydney for the first time, we’ve lost 11 successive games to New Zealand, and we only just fell over the line against Japan.
"Ireland have never scored more than 27 points against the Wallabies… well, they smashed that on the weekend.
“So, we’ve got a World Cup here in two years' time and we're on the verge of slipping out of the top eight.
“This is a team… and I go back to the Argentina game in Townsville where there was an opportunity to draw it, they (the Wallabies) went for the jugular, they got the job done.
“There was the British and Irish Lions tour that was hyped up to no end; it was controversial in Game 2, going down in a nailbiter, got a win in Game 3.
“What has happened? This could be the first team in 67 years to go through the four-Test European tour without a win.
“So, there’s a lot of firsts happening here and a lot of records that are potentially being broken.”
The Wallabies will take on the World No.5s at the Stade de France on Sunday with kick-off at 7:10am (AEDT).
