New Zealand 30 - Australia 14

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All Blacks exact brutal revenge

Piri Weepu of the All Blacks (C) leads the haka during the Tri-Nations Bledisloe Cup match between the New Zealand All Blacks and the Australian Wallabies at Eden Park on August 6, 2011 in Auckland, New Zealand.

( August 5, 2011 -All Photos by Phil Walter/Getty Images AsiaPac)

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By Gregor Paul

The danger of riling the All Blacks, as the Wallabies so clearly did in Hong Kong last year, is that they exact a long and torturous revenge.

Just as Tony Underwood will forever regret winking at Jonah Lomu in 1995, so too might these Wallabies wish they had enjoyed their last test win against the All Backs with a touch more humility.

The New Zealand parlance for what happened last night was that Australia got their beans.

They well and truly got their beans and a handful of demons will have taken residence in some Wallaby heads.

Quade Cooper won't be in a rush to come back to Eden Park after the All Blacks shut him down and smacked him around a bit.

It was the calm authority of the All Blacks that so impressed. They had some anger swilling around in the system, but it was all carefully channelled into the right areas. The tackling had venom but the defensive effort was as much about organisation as it was thunderous physicality.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/tri-nations/news/article.cfm?c_id=351&objectid=10743474
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Ma'a Nonu of the All Blacks makes a break
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The All Blacks shut out the Wallabies in a first-half blitz to win their opening Bledisloe Cup encounter 30-14 at Eden Park on Saturday.

Any hopes Australia had of ending their 25-year Auckland drought were ripped to pieces by their dominant hosts, who charged to a 17-0 lead at the break and never looked like losing.
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The All Blacks knocked the stuffing out of their trans-Tasman rivals, often reversing the Wallabies' key strike runners and kept playmaker Quade Cooper quiet all night - New Zealand's steady pressure and suffocating defence denied the Aussie pivot the chance to regularly set his backline in motion.
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Australia's cause was further undermined by poor goal-kicking, with James O'Connor' missing three successive penalties. But the same couldn't be said of Dan Carter, who was immaculate with the boot as the Wallabies were put to the sword.
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It was a clinical display all round by the rampant All Blacks, who are now in pole position to claim yet another Tri-Nations title.

http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,16024_7083900,00.html
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Next Test:
8/13
SA v Aus
Durban
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