Halfpenny: Time to put down a marker

Leigh Halfpenny has warned that Wales will need "to be on the money for 80 minutes" this weekend in their pursuit of a prize that has eluded them for six painful years.

Wales have not beaten a southern hemisphere giant – Australia, New Zealand or South Africa – since November 2008, a run of 20 successive defeats.

Nine of those losses were against today’s opponents Australia, and five times Wales went down to defeat by four points or less, reeling from such agonising setbacks as 20-19, 25-23 and 14-12.