The potent mixture of melody and muscle, as performed at the tourists' mansion retreat in rural Hampshire, will hardly strike a chord in the charts, but if the Wallabies listen hard enough they may just detect the sound of a warning. These tambourine men could have belted out their own tribute to the original Mr Tambourine Man, except that the 37-piece orchestra had nothing to do with celebrating Bob Dylan's 60th birthday. The idea was, in fact, aimed at pulling enough strings to beat the World Cup-holders in their own backyard.