\u201cThey\u2019re world champs so they are allowed to brag, they are allowed to flex, so the Wallabies have to give it back to them to make sure that they\u2019re in the contest.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to play tough footy, fast footy. If you get a result over there, it\u2019s like you\u2019ve accomplished something incredibly difficult, and the reward of doing that is through the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burke\u2019s 2002 Wallabies team came the closest to emulating the victorious 1963 team, leading 31-26 before South African fullback Werner Greeff scored an injury-time try and conversion.<\/p>\n
After Greeff\u2019s try levelled the scores at 31-31, Burke noticed that his opposite number was taking far too long to kick his conversion and reminded New Zealand referee Paddy O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe [Greeff] took about four minutes, he took forever to kick his goal, and I\u2019m yelling out to Paddy O\u2019Brien, \u2018Call the game off\u2019 \u2013 it was still 31-31,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe should have called the game off [Greeff kicked the conversion to win the game 33-31]. I ran up to him afterwards and said, \u2018Mate, you should have called that game off\u2019, and he went, \u2018Burkey, I\u2019ve got balls, but they\u2019re not that big.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Four players in today\u2019s squad remain from the Wallabies side which last played at Ellis Park in 2019: James Slipper, Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, Nic White and Taniela Tupou.<\/p>\n
Hooker Brandon Paenga-Amosa, who last faced the Springboks seven years ago in Port Elizabeth, hasn\u2019t had an opportunity to ask his teammates how it feels to run out against the Boks in Ellis Park.<\/p>\n
Paenga-Amosa admires South Africa\u2019s four World Cups and respects their record at Ellis Park, but doesn\u2019t feel intimidated by it.<\/p>\n
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\u201cObviously we respect what they\u2019ve done we respect them as a team and winning the World Cups but we\u2019re just going to take them at face value and what we see in front of our faces in Ellis Park is how we\u2019re going to see them, rather than putting them up on that pedestal,\u201d Paenga Amosa said.<\/p>\n
Paenga-Amosa played the British and Irish Lions four times, representing the Force, the AUNZ XV, the First Nations and Pasifika XV and the Wallabies in the victorious final Test in Sydney. The hooker is relishing the opportunity of being an underdog once again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe enjoy being that underdog as Aussies I feel like a lot of the time we are the underdog, and we love a comeback story so this is nothing new for us,\u201d Paenga-Amosa said. \u201cIt takes the pressure off us … we\u2019re ready to fire off our shot and have a crack.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch every match of The Rugby Championship<\/a> and Bledisloe Cup<\/a> live and on demand on Stan Sport<\/a> kicking off August 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey\u2019re world champs so they are allowed to brag, they are allowed to flex, so the Wallabies have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-59826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59826","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=59826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}