Wallabies calculate Lions' pain, exhaustion for final push Worrying sight: Lions captain Sam Warburton is assisted from the field with a hamstring injury. British and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton faced a testing night after another draining Test match on Saturday. As he hobbled into a packed room to answer questions about his side's state of mind after the loss, part of his brain was already focused on his hamstring and the recovery protocols that meant a night of icing every two hours. Down on the Etihad Stadium turf, Will Genia was heavily strapped and iced around his right knee, the same joint that went last year. These are the knocks we know about - there will be others we do not - so the series is finding out now how much is left in the tank. The Wallabies might not mind that: they have finished the stronger in both Tests, and they look to be trying to take the legs away from the Lions. And why wouldn't they? It is the end of a long season for the northern hemisphere players and they have been on the road what seems like an age. Certainly coach Robbie Deans at least hinted that part of the Wallabies' strategy was to play with sustained tempo in the hope that cracks would start to appear at the back end of games. And if that means the odd pass is pushed or dropped, they can live with it. The Wallabies are well aware of the imperfections others are pointing out. "You've got to push the envelope, so to speak, to win," Deans said on Sunday. We'll never beat a side that is as experienced as this Lions side without chancing our arm. Those are decisions that players make in the heat of the moment. There is a tipping point as well. While we make errors early, we also ask a lot early, and some of those demands are a point of difference at the far end. Who knows what it is that opens a half gap? So you've got to keep asking, you've got to keep probing. Hopefully you can, as we did in the last few minutes, build some momentum, keep the ball long enough to exploit what's there. We got to that point on a couple of occasions, but then we released the pressure ourselves. But when it came down to it, and we had to, we got it done. No doubt this desire to finish strongly was, in part, behind the reason to have a three-week preparation window. The opportunity to freshen up a few players after the weekly grind of Super Rugby for three months probably did no harm either. But the Lions can bounce back. In fact, it is almost guaranteed. Yet it will not alter what the Wallabies are trying to do. They are looking for that "tipping point," that point of deep fatigue when the body is not responding to the messages the brain is sending - even if it takes until the last five minutes in Sydney to find it.