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Publication date: October 28, 2020
Needing to win one of two events in Australia to claim the Bledisloe Cup, the All Blacks are using offshore stimulus as motivation when the series resumes in Sydney on Saturday.
The All Blacks, who claimed the Cup against Australia and have held it since 2003, have not won the award on Australian soil for 11 years. The last time New Zealand retained the Bledisloe Cup in Australia was in 2009 when they managed a 19-18 win in Sydney after a 22-16 win in Auckland.
Beauden Barrett insisted that the challenge was exciting for the team.
He said the All Blacks entered the first Draft Test in Wellington with many assumptions about how the Wallabies would play and what differences there could be to new coach Dave Rennie.
“We have learned a lot in these first two games,” he told the official All Blacks website. “With [scrum-half] Nic White, they like me to run on the back of some pretty strong ball carries. They like to play that fast and forward football and they have some skilled playmakers and some tough running backs.
“It is a well balanced game that they are playing.
“I wouldn’t say there are too many surprises. We experienced a riotous performance in Perth last year when everything seemed to be working well for them, so I think that’s the kind of game they intend to play. “
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That test, which the Wallabies won 47-26, was also a reminder for the All Blacks as they prepare for what can happen when things fall into place in Australia and they don’t go as planned, physically and emotionally, for the All Blacks. he said.
Having missed the first international match of 2020 in Wellington through injury, Barrett said he enjoyed the second test at Eden Park. He felt much better than in the previous weeks with the problem he had been working hard on.
It had also been nice to play rugby in the afternoon on a good day and to surface with ball in hand and play the kind of game that he loved to play.
“It is an exciting challenge ahead of us. At the moment, the conditions here are not very good, so we could face a football with wet weather and we are preparing well at the moment, “added Barrett.
Australia improving
Australia was a team that was improving and it was a strong team under Rennie, and the All Blacks had a lot of respect for both their rivals and the work their coach was doing with them.
“We can’t focus too much on them either, we have to take care of our backyard and keep growing as All Blacks in 2020,” Barrett said.
He feels that being able to travel was a novelty, and the team had enjoyed their early days in Sydney.
Having to leave his little girl at home for five weeks was a new experience, but Barrett believes it gave him more impetus to succeed and it was his reason, his purpose and his why, to train hard and do whatever he could to achieve that success. . they.
“It’s difficult, but it’s a sacrifice we’ve all had to make,” he said.
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