Sharpe Focus: Wallabies must get physical to bounce back in Bledisloe II against All Blacks ALL is not lost. The Wallabies were on the wrong end of a big Bledisloe Cup scoreline last weekend but they can turn it around. Rugby is a funny game. We've seen teams get belted one week and then come back and win the next week. I've got no doubts the Wallabies can win against the All Blacks in Wellington on Saturday. After the opening round of the Rugby Championship I would have to say that the gap between the Wallabies and All Blacks is a little bit wider than I thought it would be after watching Super Rugby. But the good thing about rugby is that with the physical side of the game, often if you get that really right it can make a huge difference. And I think that is not a huge void for the Wallabies to fill in the space of seven days. If they get their strategy right and play the way that coach Ewen McKenzie is envisaging them to play, then I think winning is a possibility. I will say I'm not as confident as I was before the first Bledisloe, when the quality of the current All Blacks side was really evident. They handled everything that Australia threw at them pretty well. Their experienced players who you maybe haven't heard as much about this year - Ma'a Nonu, Conrad Smith, Kieran Read and of course Richie McCaw - all stepped up and performed well which has been a real strength of the All Blacks over the past four or five years. Those guys perform consistently well which is what you need, and then you get a couple of guys like Aaron Smith and Aaron Cruden who have big games and it completes a pretty good performance. Rob Simmons was strong for the Wallabies in theor loss to the All Blacks. Despite the scoreline there were positives for the Wallabies. Their intent to use the ball was clear and they wanted to attack, which was great. In addition a lot of guys got a taste of Test rugby. I thought that it would be a lot closer game on the basis of Super Rugby but it just shows you the step up - it's a completely different game. It was good for Australia to get a lot of young guys some experience at that level. A game like last weekend was probably a good thing for some of the newer players to come in and learn what Test rugby's about. If you look at the best Test players, they don't make a lot of mistakes because they're aware that the smallest of errors can cost you badly. Unfortunately the Wallabies made more mistakes than the All Blacks did last Saturday night. That said, Australia's got that ability to always have a big performance against the All Blacks and I think you'll see a much closer game this weekend. A few of the Wallabies played really well last weekend - Rob Simmons and Michael Hooper were great and Scott Fardy did really well when he came on. If those guys can play to that level again and take the rest of the side with them, without a doubt they can do the job. But the Wallabies will have to be a lot more precise and a lot more clinical to get close to the All Blacks. If there's one area of the Wallabies game that needs real improvement it's the collision zone. The All Blacks tended to find it far easier to get half a shoulder through the tackle and get more momentum through their ball carry. On the other side the All Blacks' defence was really strong and Australia probably tried to be a little bit too lateral at times. They passed the ball laterally without changing the angles, which can be beneficial if the team straighten their running in attack but didn't confuse the defence because it was too deep - and New Zealand's defence didn't allow Australia to get on the front foot with the ball. Michael Hooper on the charge for the Wallabies. Ewen McKenzie has been in the Test environment before but the game has evolved since he was last there. Like anyone in life, you learn from every performance and I'm sure he'll be no different after last weekend. He's an intelligent coach, and very thorough. He'll have gone away and thought about a few different things. There won't be big changes, he'll just want to see his players give more of what he probably asked from them in the last game, more consistently. I think there were some things there that worked well, there were a few bits of play that strategically can work well against the All Blacks - they just need to be executed a bit better. One of those areas could be the lineout, where the Wallabies might want to challenge in the air. I thought the Australians put a lot of pressure on the New Zealand hookers, so there might be a few little tactical changes there. And the game is in Wellington where you don't know what the weather's going to bring so there might be an opportunity to pressure that area. Matt Toomua gets another chance at flyhalf for the Wallabies. One of the strengths of his game this year for the Brumbies was taking the ball to the line and flattening up the attack. It would be nice to seem him do that and get a bit of momentum on to the ball, so that the backs outside of him can do the same. He will get better with every game. It was his first Test match against the best team in the world at the moment. The Wallabies have arrived in New Zealand ready to fight for the Bledisloe cup with Coach Ewen McKenzie adamant to keep his starting squad unchanged. He's a class act and he's served a long apprenticeship which I always think is healthy for a player because they appreciate the opportunities that they're given and they understand the opportunity they have to learn from players around them. He'll be around for a long time and he'll want to get better each game. The All Blacks have also got a young playmaker with Tom Taylor in the No.10 jersey. It's his first Test but I don't think there's any point focusing too much on him as an individual. They can put pressure on Tom Taylor by putting pressure on the All Blacks. The Wallabies are going to have to try and put pressure on Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith in the centres. They're going to have to put pressure on Israel Dagg - he's going to step up and take a lot of the clearance kicking duties. They're going to have to stop halfback Aaron Smith around the base of the rucks - he made a lot of yards just sniping around the breakdown last weekend and the forwards have to rise to that challenge. If they can do that collectively as a team, then they'll be able to put pressure on Tom Taylor. I don't think rushing out of the line and trying to get pressure on him in a one-off circumstance is going to be sustainable throughout the game because the All Blacks have so many other threats. But if they put pressure on the players around him, then Tom Taylor will feel the pressure.