All Blacks, Pumas, Springboks, Wallabies Springboks flyer Brian Habana on the charge against Argentina. THE All Blacks, Pumas, Springboks and Wallabies all kick off their quest for southern hemisphere rugby supremacy this weekend. Are you ready? Check out our mug's guide to The Rugby Championship. The Rugby Championship debuted last year, when the traditional Tri-Nations triumvirate - Australia, New Zealand and South Africa - were joined by Argentina in the annual quest to find the best rugby nation in the southern hemisphere. Coach: Steve Hansen, Captain: Richie McCaw The best team on the planet, hands down. Scarily, they are also showing no signs of slowing down. Fresh from a 3-0 series whitewash of 2011 World Cup finalists France, the All Blacks get a massive boost in the frame of Richie McCaw, who returns fresh from a six-month break from rugby. The New Zealanders ooze experience and match-winners and will again be the team to beat. Coach: Santiago Phelan, Captain: Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe The new (ish) kids on the block are searching for their first win in The Rugby Championship after a host of close calls in their inaugural TRC campaign. A 16-all draw with the Springboks and two narrow defeats to the Wallabies showed they could mix it with their rivals, but another winless tournament would be hard to swallow. Backrower Fernandez Lobbe is a genuine world-class player but will miss the Pumas" TRC opener through injury, with 35-year-old veteran Felipe Contepomi to skipper Argentina in his place - and make his TRC debut after missing last year's tournament. Coach: Heyneke Meyer, Captain: Jean de Villiers The Springboks are ranked No.2 in the world, but are under pressure to both hold on to that position (the Wallabies are breathing down their necks) and improve their TRC record under Heyneke Meyer. The second-year coach didn't have the most convincing of starts to his Springboks campaign - winning just twice and drawing with Argentina - which was understandable to a degree given the depth of talent they lost following the 2011 World Cup. A traditionally powerful side, the Boks also boast some excitement in their ranks, with the likes of veteran winger Bryan Habana and young gun fullback Willie le Roux. Coach: Ewen McKenzie, Captain: James Horwill A new coach, a new direction? Former Wallaby prop, and most recently Queensland Reds coach Ewen McKenzie, has taken the reins following Robbie Deans" post-British and Irish Lions tour axing. McKenzie has been tasked with reinvigorating rugby Down Under, and has promised to do so by playing "the Australian way." Recently, that way has involved losing to the All Blacks on a very regular basis - the Wallabies haven't held aloft the Bledisloe Cup since 2002. McKenzie knows what it takes to win that trophy as a player - can he do it as a coach? Each nation plays each other twice, home and away, so that means three home games apiece in such exotic locations as ... Hamilton and Perth. The All Blacks" home games are in Wellington (v Australia), Hamilton (v Argentina) and Auckland (v South Africa), while South Africa will play in front of Boks fans in Soweto (v Argentina), Newlands (v Australia) and Johannesburg (v New Zealand). The Wallabies will enjoy gold-tinged crowds in Sydney (v New Zealand), Brisbane (v South Africa) and Perth (v Argentina) while the Pumas are certainties to come away with at least one victory this campaign - the prize for the best-sounding host cities: Mendoza (v South Africa), La Plata (v New Zealand) and Rosario (v Australia). Matt Toomua will be the fifth starting flyhalf for Australia since the start of The Rugby Championship last year when he makes his Test debut on Saturday night. Worryingly, only one of 12 Wallabies to make their Test debuts against the All Blacks since 2000 has been a winner - league convert Timana Tahu back in 2008 Richie McCaw, coming off his six-month sabattical, will equal Wallaby wing legend David Campese's record of most Bledisloe Cup Tests (28) when he takes the field on Saturday night. Richie McCaw returns to lead the All Blacks. Argentina has just four wins to show from 54 games against their rivals in The Rugby Championship, and they were all against the Wallabies - in 1997, 1987, 1983 and 1979. Only one of those victories was away from home - they won 18-3 over Australia at Ballymore in "83. They did notch a draw against the Boks in their TRC debut campaign last year. The Springboks have a shocking recent record in The Rugby Championship/Tri-Nations series since winning the tournament in 2009. They have won just four of their past 16 matches since then, and all of those wins were at home This weekend: Call me crazy, but I like the Wallabies to give Ewen McKenzie a winning start to his international coaching career. No Dan Carter, no Liam Messam, no time like the present for James Horwill and co to make a stand? Wallabies by four. The Boks will be too strong at home for the Pumas. Overall: As much as it pains to say it, can't go past the All Blacks. The reigning World Champions, Bledisloe Cup holders and winners of the inaugural TRC will prove too strong again overall.