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Joe Schmidt needs time to deliver Wallabies progress, says assistant Laurie Fisher

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Australia assistant coach Laurie Fisher has called for patience ahead of the Wallabies' back-to-back Rugby Championship clashes with Argentina after opening their campaign with consecutive losses against world champions South Africa.The Joe Schmidt-coached outfit - second best to Rassie Erasmus' side in Brisbane and Perth - travel to South America to face a Pumas squad that started their competition with a win and a loss against the All Blacks in New Zealand.Those results leave Schmidt's team rooted to the bottom of the standings ahead of the clashes in La Plata and Santa Fe, with Fisher believing the New Zealander needs time to implement the changes required to make the Wallabies competitive."At the moment, we're six training weeks in" under Schmidt, he said. "So that's not a lot, is it?"Six training weeks (is not long), when you look at sides that have had a particular style of play or game plan for years, and there is a significant change from where we've been previously, particularly in our attacking game."We just want to see progress, we want to win games, and we feel we go into every game believing and expecting that we'll win that game.

It won't always happen, but we've just got to be patient."Schmidt has been handed the task of rebuilding a demoralised Wallabies set-up ahead of next year's British and Irish Lions tour of Australia while the country is also due to host the Rugby World Cup in 2027.The former Ireland coach took over from Eddie Jones after a disastrous World Cup campaign last year, when the Australians were eliminated in the group phase, while the country's Super Rugby Pacific franchises have also struggled in recent seasons."I don't think there's anything in our game that we can tick off and say

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