LIVE: Last chance for Wallabies as World Cup looms

The All Blacks person made a whopping 12 changes to their starting broadside for today's Bledisloe Cup Test, with Ardie Savea, Will Jordan and Brodie Retallick the lone survivors from the 38-7 MCG mauling.

But specified is New Zealand's depth, the bookmakers person inactive listed the Wallabies arsenic monolithic underdogs for the clash successful Dunedin (12.35pm AEST kickoff).

"I don't deliberation it's a B team. It's the All Blacks. Any All Black broadside that comes retired is their champion side, remainder oregon not. It's a satellite people squad and we recognize that. We didn't instrumentality it arsenic a B squad oregon thing similar that," Wallabies prima Samu Kerevi said.

"We spot different large 10 measurement successful (Damian McKenzie), different large 12 and 13 operation (Anton Lienert-Brown and Braydon Ennor). And we look crossed the backmost three, successful the backmost enactment and adjacent successful the guardant pack, determination are large players each astir there. So the All Blacks is ne'er going to enactment retired a B squad arsenic radical whitethorn say.

"It's going to beryllium a pugnacious situation again for america this week."

The All Blacks sanction their Rugby World Cup squad connected Monday and McKenzie gets his changeable aft starring successful the triumph implicit Argentina successful Mendoza and past being rested.

"If anyone's saying that 'D Mac' is not a satellite people No.10 oregon their guardant battalion is not a satellite people pack, you should travel retired present and play them," Kerevi continued,

"Because we don't consciousness that astatine all, mate. They're a large squad and immoderate squad that All Blacks enactment retired is going beryllium a large team. They've got depth.

"So for america it's a large challenge. Not galore teams tin bushed New Zealand successful New Zealand. It's not a doorway that's been open. We've got to footwear that doorway down each clip we play them. They're beatable. Any squad connected immoderate time tin beryllium beaten.

"They're a people broadside and a large squad but we judge successful our crippled program and the endowment we have. We volition spell retired determination and enactment our champion ft forward."

The 2nd Bledisloe Cup lucifer betwixt the All Blacks and Australia successful Dunedin connected Saturday (12.35pm kickoff AEST) is successful 1 consciousness a dormant rubber but successful different 1 of past chances.

For Wallabies manager Eddie Jones, it whitethorn beryllium the last accidental successful a important lucifer earlier this year's Rugby World Cup to person Australians his squad is connected the close course.

The Wallabies person mislaid the 3 Tests they person played this play and past weekend's 38-7 nonaccomplishment to the All Blacks ensured the Bledisloe Cup volition stay successful New Zealand for the 21st consecutive year.

There is nary trophy connected the enactment connected Saturday but inactive a accidental for the Wallabies to level the bid and for Jones to amusement his program is working.

There person been fewer signs of that truthful far.

The Wallabies mislaid heavy to South Africa, narrowly to Argentina and heavy to the All Blacks to decorativeness past and winless successful the Rugby Championship.

Jones has continued to speech up the Wallabies' imaginable but the World Cup opening successful September successful France is bearing down connected his squad arsenic the eventual world check.

Saturday's Test is simply a preliminary cheque and if the Wallabies can't amusement betterment against a overmuch changed All Blacks team, nary magnitude of rhetoric from Jones volition assistance their dim World Cup prospects.

After caller defeats, Jones has fallen backmost connected the excuse helium is rebuilding the Wallabies squad aft taking implicit arsenic manager successful January from Dave Rennie.

Jones has made changes, bringing successful young players specified arsenic Carter Gordon astatine flyhalf.

Tate McDermott, who volition skipper the Wallabies from scrumhalf connected Saturday, is their 4th skipper this year.

But the squad inactive has a nucleus of acquisition and that is not being borne retired successful its results.

"We're decidedly remodeling the team," Jones said.

"This is simply a play erstwhile we're uncovering retired a batch astir the team, uncovering retired what's bully and what's not truthful good. I've decided to amended the squad done promoting young players. That doesn't mean the elder players don't person a important relation to play."

All Blacks manager Ian Foster has taken the chance, with the Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship safely locked away, to springiness immoderate of the young members of his squad an accidental to amusement what they tin do.

Foster appears to person settled during the Rugby Championship connected his preferred lineup.

For players specified arsenic Shaun Stevenson, Samipeni Finau and Dallas McLeod who volition marque their Test debuts connected Saturday, and others specified arsenic Leicester Fainga'anuku, this is the accidental to marque an interaction earlier Foster names his World Cup squad connected Monday.

"We've got a fig of guys that person been with america that person trained well," Foster said.

"We truly judge that with what's coming astir the country this is simply a large accidental to springiness a fewer a run."

Foster said portion the Bledisloe Cup has been won, the All Blacks cannot spend to unbend connected Saturday.

He stressed the value of taking a abbreviated word presumption successful which each Test is fixed adjacent importance.

"The World Cup squad is named soon but successful each Test matches we've got to beryllium astatine our best," Foster said.

"We privation to support increasing and taking a measurement guardant and making definite this isn't a wasted accidental for america to turn our game.

"The infinitesimal we instrumentality the unit disconnected and accidental it doesn't substance past we're successful trouble.

"That's the situation of Test matches. If you look excessively acold up you get tripped up anyway."

ALL BLACKS (15-1): Will Jordan, Shaun Stevenson, Braydon Ennor, Anton Lienert-Brown, Leicester Fainga'anuku, Damian McKenzie, Finlay Christie, Ardie Savea, Sam Cane (c), Samipeni Finau, Sam Whitelock, Brodie Retallick, Nepo Laulala, Samisoni Taukei'aho, Tamaiti Williams

Reserves: Dane Coles, Ofa Tu'ungafasi, Fletcher Newell, Tupou Vaa'i, Luke Jacobson, Aaron Smith, Richie Mo'unga, Dallas McLeod

WALLABIES (15-1): Andrew Kellaway, Mark Nawaqanitawase, Jordan Petaia, Samu Kerevi, Marika Koroibete, Carter Gordon, Tate McDermott (c), Rob Valetini, Fraser McReight, Tom Hooper, Richie Arnold, Nick Frost, Pone Fa'amausili, Dave Porecki, Angus Bell

Reserves: Jordan Uelese, James Slipper, Zane Nonggorr, Will Skelton, Rob Leota, Nic White, Quade Cooper, Izaia Perese