Wallabies: Taniela Tupou’s ‘dead right’ verdict on the Springboks and his honest admission about his ‘first few months in France’ with Racing

Taniela Tupou’s assessment of the likely challenge that will be presented on Sunday by the Springboks in Perth has been given a ringing endorsement by one of his Wallaby coaches.

The 30-year-old prop was wheeled out for media duties on Tuesday and with the South Africans having arrived in Australia on the back of bossing the All Blacks at set-piece in the recent Greatest Rivalry series they won 3-1, it was inevitable that most of the questions put to him were about how the Wallabies pack will cope with the intensity.

“Yeah, we’re excited,” he kicked off. “As a front-row, we