Watch the Wallabies tackle the All Blacks live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nTen days after the 43-10 setback against the Springboks in Wellington, Holland had few concerns about players “dropping heads” following the nation’s heaviest defeat in Test rugby.<\/p>\n
“Obviously the boys hurt massively during the last week,” Holland told reporters in Auckland on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“A lot of those boys have been around a long time and they’re pretty clear with everyone around what the Bledisloe means.<\/p>\n
“It’s massive for the crew, it’s massive for us and getting solutions quickly has enabled us to have real confidence in what we’re going to do this week.”<\/p>\n
Australia lead the Rugby Championship on 11 points, one ahead of second-placed South Africa and third-placed New Zealand with two rounds to play.<\/p>\n
As attack coach under Scott Robertson, Holland’s work is under scrutiny following the All Blacks’ series of second-half fade-outs.<\/p>\n
They were held scoreless after the break in Wellington a week after managing 10 points after half-time in the 24-17 win over the Springboks at Eden Park.<\/p>\n
The Wallabies, by contrast, have made slow starts then racked up late tries in both the 28-24 win over Argentina in Townsville and the 28-26 loss to the Pumas in Sydney.<\/p>\n
Holland said one of the All Blacks’ top priorities was finding a better balance between their kicking and running games, after giving up too much possession with the boot against the Springboks.<\/p>\n
After recovering from a foot injury, Robertson’s preferred scrumhalf Cameron Roigard could help with striking that balance.<\/p>\n
Roigard has been sidelined for the entire Rugby Championship but was part of an exhaustive review of the Wellington wipe-out when the team assembled in Auckland over the weekend.<\/p>\n
“There was a bit of edge about the review, some real honest conversations talking about standards and expectations (and) around where we went wrong,” the 24-year-old told reporters.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t a short, sharp review, there was lots of layers to it.<\/p>\n
“We have a lot of pride in what we do and we want to always perform to make New Zealand proud.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand’s mission to retain the Bledisloe Cup against Australia has helped the All Blacks move on from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,99527,760,85],"class_list":["post-162749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bledisloe-cup","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}