Tupou weeps golden tears as Wallabies win back respect in bittersweet victory | Angus Fontaine

Prop was brought in from cold for stormy affair that acted as staging post for improvement of Joe Schmidt's team

Taniela Tupou let the tears flow. Months before, the Wallabies prop wondered if he had forgotten how to play the game. The Tongan Thor had been reduced to mortality of late, injuries and errors clouding his mind and finding him exiled by Test selectors.

Now he was arm-in-arm with his brothers, singing the Australian anthem in the gold jersey for likely the final time before 80,312 fans. Why not let a few fat salty ones break their moorings? After all, occasions didn't get much bigger. A full house at Sydney's old Olympic stadium.