Australia’s Bernard Foley back to best and ready to beguile England again | Gerard Meagher

The Australia fly-half was below par for much of the year but is back in form and is set to be a key player on Saturday at Twickenham – where he has run rings round England before

Of all the enduring images from England’s 20-point thrashing by Australia at last year’s World Cup – and there were a fair few – perhaps Joe Launchbury’s misery when collecting a thoroughly undeserved man-of-the-match award best sums up the stark humiliation of it all.

There were numerous better performers that night, all wearing green and gold, and none more so than Bernard Foley, scorer of two tries – the first of which left Launchbury with a face full of grass - and 28 points in one of the most beguiling fly-half performances Twickenham has witnessed. And after he had been earmarked as the Wallabies’ weak link, no less.

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