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Bledisloe Cup video: Where's the difference in obstruction calls?

The Bledisloe Cup gone for another year, Australian rugby fans can't argue with the fact the Wallabies were comprehensively outplayed in each trans-Tasman Test in 2018.

The 3-0 whitewash was executed by the All Blacks with brutal precision, culminating in Saturday afternoon's 37-20 triumph in Yokohama. Across the three Tests, the world champions ran up a 115-45 margin, scoring 17 tries to the Wallabies' five.

But there was one five-pointer from the weekend's Test in Japan that left Wallabies fans furious, or at least digging deep into YouTube for comparison.

Ben Smith's second-half intercept looked simple enough, the winger picking off a poor pass from Israel Folau to sprint 55 metres to the tryline. But on second viewing, the role Aaron Smith played in running interference on Kurtley Beale at least warranted further inspection.

It did eventually receive the Television Match Official treatment, before Marius Jonker and referee Romain Poite agreed Aaron Smith had not done enough to assist Ben Smith's passage to the tryline.

In fairness, Beale would have been doing well to catch the All Blacks winger had he not been shielded out by Aaron Smith.

Still, Wallabies fans, and other rugby supporters from across the world, pointed to the fact it was a near clone of a try Henry Speight had disallowed in the corresponding fixture from 2016.

On that occasion, Dane Haylett-Petty was judged to have run Julian Savea off the ball. But, if anything, Aaron Smith's action in blocking Beale was far more of an interference.

In the 2016 match in Auckland, referee Nigel Owens and TMO Shaun Veldsman agreed Haylett-Petty's obstruction was worthy of a penalty and thus overturned Speight's try. Down 15-7 at the time, Speight's five-pointer would have brought the Wallabies back into the contest. Instead, they went on to lose 37-10.

Australia were already chasing the game at 13-27 down when Ben Smith went over on Saturday, but the five-pointer put the result beyond any doubt.

Neither Wallabies coach Michael Cheika nor All Blacks counterpart Steve Hansen were asked about the try at the post-match media conference but there was certainly a feeling of injustice across social media.