Former Wallaby coach Jones tips All Blacks win

Australia ended a four-year winless run against their local rivals with a 27-19 victory in Sydney on August. 8 – only the All Blacks’ third defeat since winning the 2011 World Cup – but a week later New Zealand restored order in the shape of a five-try 41-13 thrashing in Auckland.

The move enables the entire squad to stay up for the 3am kickoff on Sunday when the All Blacks and Wallabies write another chapter into the rich sporting tradition between the two nations.

“It’s another game of rugby where we get the opportunity to display how we play and our style of rugby so you just go about the preparation process”, he said.

Trans-Tasman rivalry is now near an all time high.

But rewind a year and picture the Wallabies in a World Cup final.

2015 World Cup finalists Australia have made the same amount of progress in one year as their predecessors did in two to win the 1999 tournament, Stephen Larkham said Tuesday.

“I think this journey is fairly similar”, said Larkham, who has produced a vibrant backline that has contributed the majority of the side’s 26 tries thus far.

Though most New Zealand scribes tipped a win for the champions, there were signs of a grudging respect. We’ve talked about this particular game for a long, long time. I left a note for my mum and dad and said I can’t carry on any more with my life.

Meanwhile Mitchell put in “one of the best individual performances I’ve seen”, Hooper said.

The only final not to feature either New Zealand or Australia since the tournament’s inception in 1987 was eight years ago when South Africa beat England.

It will be Owens’ 68th Test match in the middle, while Frenchman Jerome Garces and England’s Wayne Barnes have been confirmed by World Rugby as assistant referees for the final.

‘Four more years, boys!’ went George Gregan’s cry when Australia overcame the All Blacks in the semi-final in 2003 and he’s never lived it down. We are in a good space at the moment and those of us who are coming to the end of our global careers are focused exclusively on preparing well for Australia.

“It has been good having Smithy back in the camp and he has added to the coaching group”, Mealamu said.

A second-minute interception and a fumbled quick tap gifted the Wallabies early points and allowed them to establish a lead they held on to for the whole match.

“If we get caught up in it we will lose impetus”.

“I think the biggest thing we’ve brought over this last 12 months is a little bit of structure to the game”.

Pocock, who missed the quarter-final win over Scotland with a calf injury, completed the entire match and had a very strong game, especially in defence and at the breakdown.