Israel Folau vows to let instincts rule against Argentina It's pretty hard at the moment, not just for me but for everyone in the team. We want to start to get on the winning end": Israel Folau. One of the most unsettling aspects of the Wallabies' 28-8 submission to the Springboks was watching Israel Folau fight his natural instincts and kick away everything that came his way in the first half. Five times the ball sailed his way deep in Wallabies territory and five times he caught it, took a few half steps and sent it back down the field. You could almost see the triumph of mind and game plan over muscle memory. Folau followed the game plan to the letter, along with his team mates, and the Wallabies were 23-3 down before the sun dropped down behind Table Mountain. Not only did Australia's kick-first tactic run into trouble in the face of referee Jerome Garces, who went hard with his whistle at the defending team, they also denied themselves their greatest weapon in attack. "The first half that was our plan going into the game and it wasn't working," Folau said. So we tried to run a lot more in the second half and I thought the second half was a lot better. If Folau was less of a perfectionist he would have clicked his heels and pirouetted the first time he caught the ball and ran in the second half. The shackles were off and the Wallabies looked like Wallabies once more. It didn't win them the game but it straightened their backs and lifted their gazes off the ground. As they search for that elusive sweet spot between running and kicking for another week, Folau said he would let his instincts rule against Argentina. "There's a structure put into place in the team and we've been trying it for the last month or two but we're still probably on the wrong end of it," he said. In terms of my role in the team there's a long way to go with things I've got to work on. But from now on in I'm going to try to play on feeling and reacting to what the opposition presents. I think that's the best way to play footy, playing what happens in front of you. It is a style that suited him well at the Waratahs this year, where it was also adopted as company policy under the strategy of senior assistant coach Alan Gaffney. Super Rugby is not Test rugby. The Wallabies' first two attempts to run it from their half against the All Blacks ended in disaster. Predictably, next came over-correction. And this week, who knows? "There were times [in Cape Town] when I was two-minded, more worried about the structures and plans we have as a team," Folau said. But now, speaking to the coaches, there's more leeway to play what's in front, but also be smart about it. We'll try to do that this week. Respect is on the line this weekend in the final round of the Rugby Championship. Argentina has put New Zealand and South Africa to the test at home and could relegate the Wallabies to the bottom of the competition ladder if they find enough weaknesses to exploit up front and in defence. We want to start to get on the winning end," Folau said. But the good sides, if you look at history, come from behind like this and start to make their way through to the top. It's been a tough year for the Wallabies but we'll be trying to turn things around, starting this week.