While Australia were very ordinary,the Fijians were something else entirely. They are a great and superbly coached side who have now,officially,arrived on the world stage.
The Wallabies lost against the Fijians for the first time in 69 years. How did the players rate?
The Wallabies face the prospect of bowing out in the pool stages of the Rugby World Cup for the first time after a horror 22-15 loss to Fiji in Saint-Etienne.
Campese Ma’afu was named after a Wallabies winger and played 62 Tests for Fiji at prop - including four against Australia. He has a good insight about why Fiji can shock the Wallabies.
Nemani Nadolo played for some of the world’s biggest rugby clubs,but he was always happiest playing for Fiji - even when he had to pay his own airfares to do so.
The Wallabies do not want to face Wales next week needing a win to get out of the pool. This is an enormous test of every decision Australian rugby has made in the past year.
Fiji narrowly lost a thrilling opening World Cup game against Wales. Should the Wallabies beware? Former Olympic gold medal-winning coach Ben Ryan thinks so.
No one is getting too carried away in Wallabies camp about the 20-point win against Georgia considering they are ranked outside the top 10 in the world,but it is a step in the right direction.
It is likely Eddie Jones would not have cared who won,but there is an argument that Fiji losing to Wales is slightly more helpful for Australia’s hopes of progressing.
Eddie Jones and the Wallabies will get their first look at their main Pool C rivals when the world’s seventh and 10th-ranked sides go head-to-head.
Australia still top Pool C but their upcoming clash with Fiji now looms as crucial to both sides’ chances of reaching the quarter-finals.