McKenzie keeps fans, and players, guessing British Lions hangover: George North of the Lions lifts Israel Folau during the second Test. Australian rugby will rely on the excitement surrounding Ewen McKenzie's inaugural Wallabies team to boost sluggish ticket sales before the first Bledisloe Cup Test in Sydney on Saturday. The crowd for McKenzie's first Test match as Wallabies coach is projected to be about 65,000, well clear of a sell-out Eden Park Test but well short of the 77,000 who turned up to watch the same fixture at ANZ Stadium last year. It is believed a "hangover" effect from the sold-out British and Irish Lions Test series will keep a lid on sales for, if not interest in, the only Bledisloe Cup match to be played in Australia this year. The prize: Kurtley Beale poses with the Bledisloe Cup. There is hope anticipation of a strong first Wallabies performance under a new coach and about who will make McKenzie's final cut could give ticket sales a boost running into the match. The Wallabies have pushed back the team announcement to Thursday afternoon, giving McKenzie another training session before he makes his decision. And there is no indication anyone but McKenzie knows what the team will look like on Saturday. Test regular James O'Connor said on Monday morning, before the squad's first training session of the week, that the back line had not yet run together in training. Even McKenzie said he was savouring the sweet few days he has to nail his colours to the mast, saying keeping players guessing was bringing out their best. The more competitive you can make the training environment, the best you'll get out of the players. The more you keep mixing it up and keeping it fresh and making challenges and testing them out - they like that sort of training," he said. In the end, [it's] unfortunate you have to pick a team in some ways, because when you pick a team, you create disappointment. Once you pick a team you've got guys that are committed to the task. They've got to deliver and the other guys have to wait and see. But up until now it's been really good. The guys have done a really good job. The All Blacks organised two trial matches, against Canterbury and Wellington, as part of their preparations for Saturday's Rugby Championship opener. The Wallabies have no trials organised, instead running an opposed session on Saturday to test out combinations. McKenzie said he was content of the players' fitness following the Super Rugby season, which included the Brumbies and Reds in the finals series. Several Waratahs players also had a match against the Argentinian Test team before flying back to Australia and joining the squad. I'm pretty pleased. We had a good session on Saturday afternoon, that was where we really started to get very specific about certain things we needed to do," McKenzie said. You don't want to over-complicate things. You need to have enough to be able to win but you can't mind-numb them with lots of stuff. You have to find the things that are going to have the biggest impact on the day. The All Blacks arrive in Sydney on Thursday afternoon, with all eyes on the fitness of recently returned breakaway Richie McCaw. McCaw managed only half a trial game at the weekend but was backed by New Zealand coach Steve Hansen to be ready for a full Test match this weekend. McKenzie said the All Blacks appeared happy with where their champion No.7 was at. "They've got some plans about what they're doing in terms of preserving the welfare of their players, I'm not sure what the overall plan is but I'm assuming it involves the [2015] World Cup," he said. He's a very experienced player ... They're just managing his welfare and clearly they're happy with what he's done to be able to bring him back in.