Rugby Australia chief Phil Waugh has backed Joe Schmidt's criticism of the match officials after Saturday's Lions Test in Melbourne.

A contentious try in the last minute by Hugo Keenan capped an extraordinary comeback win for the British and Irish Lions over the Wallabies in the second test on Saturday, played in front of 90,000 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

History is written by the victors and hindsight bias can easily creep in as we evaluate how coaches have used their replacements in a tight Test match.

The Wallabies’ heartbreaking 29-26 defeat in Melbourne will go down as one of the great games in modern Test rugby. It had everything:

Rugby Australia has recalled Will Skelton and Rob Valetini to add some size and weight in a bid to save the series against the British and Irish Lions.

There’s been a lot of noise about the final-minute clean-out by Jac Morgan on Carlo Tizzano – and fair enough.

Wayne Barnes wades into the heated debate over Jac Morgan’s Lions clear-out of Carlo Tizzano

Any British and Irish Lions and Australia players in need of inspiration in the final moments before kick off in Saturday’s second Test need only glance up at the wall in front of them. While the dressing rooms of one of the world’s great sporting colosseums will be bedecked in the iconography of both sides as they make the Melbourne Cricket Ground their temporary home,

Barbs that the Wallabies were unworthy opponents for the British and Irish Lions have the Australians desperate to avoid losing a series 3-0 to the tourists for the first time since 1904.

For 16 minutes, Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt and captain Harry Wilson faced the media, struggling to process what had just happened.

The Wallabies could be without as many as four of their key players ahead of the final Test against the British and Irish Lions, one of which is flanker Carlo Tizzano. The back-rower was cleared out by Jac Morgan in the build-up to Hugo Keenan’s decisive try in the final play of the game,