Another key injury has left the Wallabies in disarray as Joe Schmidt's physically battered and psychologically bruised outfit stare down the barrel of a dubious place in Australian sports history.
From outside the squad, Brandon Paenga-Amosa has answered an SOS call from Schmidt to jump on to the bench for Australia's third and final Test against the British and Irish Lions in Sydney on Saturday.
Billy Pollard has been promoted to the starting side after first-choice hooker David Porecki was ruled out on Friday with a leg injury, with Paenga-Amosa rushing in to camp to join the squad.
The late reshuffle comes after star forwards Allan Alaalatoa and Rob Valetini were already ruled out of one of the Wallabies' most significant Tests ever.
A loss at Accor Stadium would consign the Wallabies to the first 3-0 series whitewash at the hands of the Lions on home soil since 1904 following last Saturday's gut-wrenching and controversial last-gasp 29-26 loss in Melbourne
Compounding their troubles, Queensland Reds rake Matt Faessler -- initially selected ahead of Pollard as the reserve hooker -- was also ruled out after tweaking his calf during the week.
But defiant skipper Harry Wilson has no doubts the late ring-in will deliver for the Wallabies and his country.
"Brendan joined us yesterday afternoon, obviously after a bit of a tough Thursday training session," Wilson said after Friday's captain's run.
"Gutted to lose, I guess, a few, great, great players in Porecki and 'Fez', but we have a lot of confidence in 'BPA'.
"He's been around this group for quite a long time over the last year, year and a half, and he's 'versed' the Lions already three times, I believe.
"So he's got a lot of confidence and he's coming into the group and he's fitting very quickly."
The Wallabies are also intent on sending out Nic White on a high, the squad sporting their own versions of the halfback's moustache for Friday's team photo.
"He's just the ultimate competitor, the ultimate team man, especially over the last two years," Wilson said.
"He's been really running the non-23, and every training session he gets the boys up. He does whatever it takes for the team, every session, every match.
"(But) once he goes across that white line, he's a different man. He's a competitor and he's loved by the group."
The Lions are bidding to sweep a series in Australia for the first time since 1904, but Wilson insists being the first Wallabies outfit in more than a century to suffer such a fate has not been discussed.
"We want to win every Test match we play," Wilson said.
"Obviously it's quite unfortunate, (this position). Last week we thought we played some pretty good footy and put ourselves in a position to win that game.
"Ultimately we didn't, and they're obviously wanting to come out here and be clean-sweepers.
"But we want to go out there and get a result for our country, and we've had a really good week's prep.
"We've built into the week slowly. Everyone was pretty down to start the week, but we had a really good Tuesday, Thursday and a lot of energy at today's captain's run.
"The boys can't wait."