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Sydney gets the honour of hosting the opening fixture of 2012’s Rugby Championship as Australia face the All Blacks at ANZ Stadium on Saturday. The Tri Nations has been rebranded as the Rugby Championship and included Argentina this year. Each team will play home and away against the other sides over six rounds. The competition runs from August 18 to October 6.
New Zealand are excited to go into the game on a run of ten consecutive wins. Despite losing the Tri-Nations title last year, Bledisloe Cup bragging rights have remained in their corner. Their largely settled line-up oozes experience and with a nice dash of youth in scrum-half Aaron Smith, they have got a great deal of caps (squad total of 785) in their cabinet.
The New Zealand line-up include: 15 – Israel Dagg, 14 – Cory Jane, 13 – Ma’a Nonu, 12 – Sonny Bill Williams, 11 – Hosea Gear, 10 – Dan Carter, 9 – Aaron Smith, 8 – Kieran Read, 7 – Richie McCaw (captain), 6 – Liam Messam, 5 – Sam Whitelock, 4 – Luke Romano, 3 – Owen Franks, 2 – Keven Mealamu, 1 – Tony Woodcock
Reserves: 16 – Andrew Hore, 17 – Ben Franks, 18 – Brodie Retallick, 19 – Victor Vito, 20 – Piri Weepu, 21 – Aaron Cruden, 22 – Ben Smith.
Australia could fall short in the front-row and it continues to perplex why Stephen Moore is not starting while their back-row has two good runners in Scott Higginbotham and Dave Dennis, but whether they have the international nous and dog of their rivals is going to be the question. New Zealand meanwhile seem to have an ideal balance of grunt and cutting edge while their bench options make it only one result for me as the ABs strut to Auckland.
The Australian team include: 15 – Kurtley Beale, 14 – Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 – Rob Horne, 12 – Anthony Faingaa, 11 – Digby Ioane, 10 – Berrick Barnes, 9 – Will Genia, 8 – Scott Higginbotham, 7 – David Pocock (captain), 6 – Dave Dennis, 5 – Nathan Sharpe, 4 – Sitaleki Timani, 3 – Sekope Kepu, 2 – Tatafu Polota Nau, 1 – Benn Robinson
Reserves: 16 – Stephen Moore, 17 – James Slipper, 18 – Rob Simmons, 19 – Radike Samo, 20 – Michael Hooper, 21 – Nick Phipps, 22 – Drew Mitchell
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