The Rugby World Cup Final is but just another Bledisloe Cup Final and having each won one this season we are in for the biggest one of them all come Saturday at Twickenham.
What ever you call it, these two have been the form teams this World Cup, if not this year and are full value for their spots in the final two. It has all the makings for yet another classic encounter between the two giants.
A tough Pool and heavy knock out stage does leave some doubt as to whether or not the Australians will run out of steam against an arguably fresher All Blacks team who I might add had an extra day to recover from their Semi-Final too.
That by no means is a given and the All Blacks will know the tenacity of the Wallabies is second to none. A great example is them going down to 13 men against a strong Welsh outfit and keeping them out in another one of their tough Pool encounters.
New Zealand where also only really tested in the knock out stages and to a lesser extent by the French. So there is the train of thought that under pressure the Australian's have had practice, even though the All Blacks have played in a World Cup Final just four years ago.
Trevine of The ROAR website rightly wrote “Steve Hansen and Michael Cheika have had enough insight into each others strengths and weaknesses from their previous clashes in the Rugby Championship. But it will be the team that hold their nerve under the pressure of a World Cup final that will hold aloft rugby’s richest prize.”
Prediction
The familiarity and the frequency that these two teams play each other does not leave you with a clear favourite. Yes the defending champions should edge it but on the day the only team that can upset the All Blacks stream-train is this Australian team.
Don't get me wrong the team setting the bench mark for rugby since the last Rugby World Cup has been the All Black's and that steam-train is'nt about to stop just yet.
New Zealand by 5 or more.
Jade Christopher Bentley Adams signing off
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