Wallabies skipper James Horwill does not want much - just a good day out.
Horwill and his Australian team-mates arrived in Dunedin yesterday after a couple of days in Queenstown and quickly hosed down any talk of dead tests and the huge cost of the All Blacks losing Richie McCaw.
Horwill told a press conference yesterday more time together under new coach Ewen McKenzie is starting to benefit the Wallabies.
He felt the side has made progress since August, when the All Blacks beat the Wallabies twice in a row.
''There was probably a lack of confidence then in the way we wanted to play and a bit of uncertainty in what we were trying to do,'' he said.
''It was a bit of a whirlwind. New coach, new structures and we were trying to put it together very quickly. The guys were a little bit unsure of what was happening. But certainly with spending time together and playing together has helped.''
Going by their last match - a 50-point beating of Argentina - the side is showing some benefits of getting on the same page.
But Horwill said although that test win over the Pumas was great it was a memory now.
"You can take belief if the things we need to do well get the result we are looking for. But that was two weeks ago now and it seems like a lifetime ago.
''We have travelled halfway round the world and then down here. That seems a while ago. But the belief in the individual players is definitely better coming off the win from that game.''
All week All Black coach Steve Hansen has been hammering the line of the importance of the game and has dismissed any talk of a dead rubber. He has a firm ally in Horwill, who said any time the All Blacks and Wallabies met there was something on the line.
''Any time you play new Zealand, it is a huge game. That is what we as Australians like to do.
''If you get the result you are looking for, that is a good day out.''
The loss of Richie McCaw for the All Blacks was not something Horwill dwelled on and said the All Blacks would not lose much with the inclusion of Sam Cane.
''Anyone who has played 120 tests is a pretty big hole to fill. But Sam Cane is an excellent player who has been playing very well. I do not think they will lose too much. But experience is a loss for any team. It is hard to replicate that experience.
''But Sam Cane has been doing a great job when he is in there. It won't be too much of a shock or difference for them.''
Horwill was concentrating more on his own team and first five-eighth Quade Cooper is bound to come under the spotlight.
''We just need to address our own stuff and what the opposition has to do. We have to be more clinical, and be better than we were. We are focused on our game rather than the opposition.
''Quade always wants to attack. He is that type of bloke. I have played with him eight years now and he has always wanted to attack. That is the type of person he is. We just need to do the job to make him able to play.''
