Wallabies can't escape Sydney mistakes

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WALLABIES coach Ewen McKenzie has forced his players to watch continuous replays of last week's embarrassing loss to the All Blacks in camp this week.

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After keeping faith with the same starting players who lost 47-29 – bar introducing backrower Scott Fardy for the injured Hugh McMeniman - McKenzie revealed that he'd put the replay on a constant loop in the team room in their Wellington hotel.

The players, on notice to perform or face the axe, have not been able to escape footage of themselves being hammered by their Tasman rivals.

McKenzie said he was "angry" about the result in Sydney, and is using the tactic to fire up his side as they attempt to become the first Wallaby team to win a Bledisloe Test in New Zealand since 2001.

"The game is actually rolling on continuous video right now in the team room," McKenzie said on Thursday.

"I put it on today, and they're all in there sitting and watching it, having lunch and watching.

"It's on repeat.

"You've got to live in the real world.

"I've worked out when you travel around and you're in hotel rooms, you live in this detached world where you play and you go back, you're in the training environment and preparing, but the real world is out there.

"The real world is talking about us and saying things. We've got to make sure we live in the real world.

"And the shop front of the real world is the game, that's where millions of people are watching, that's your best chance to make a statement.

"That shop front has got to be how you want to be represented."

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Asked what he hoped the players would take from watching replays of the game, McKenzie replied: "You've got to take ownership out of your own performance, your own contribution.

"You've got to aim that technically and emotionally.

"We'll do whatever we can around the edges to make sure they're prepared. In the end, when they're in the shop front, that's what everyone's got left to reference us by.

"We're trusting them to showcase us in the right way."

McKenzie wants his team to play with the hurt of that result lingering fresh in mind.

"There's the technical piece, then there is the emotional piece," he said.

"We can't just sit here and think last week is done and dusted, last week sits there and we were all part of it.

"We need to own that scoreline and do something about it this week. There is an emotional game plan there as well."

McKenzie has shown faith in his young team, but said the players are well aware of the consequences should they fail again at Westpac Stadium.

"They know, I'm trying to keep it fairly logical and pragmatic, we're in a highly competitive performance business and it's about performing," he said.

"I'm not offering up a three-year plan or a one-year plan, you've got to get on with it.

"They've got experience at elite level rugby and they've all played a fair bit of footy in the last couple of years and done well in a pretty competitive environment. You can't just fall back and say 'that's it'.

"We're playing the best team in the world, it doesn't get any tougher than right now.

"That's how they've got to benchmark themselves. They've got to want to be competitive in that environment.

"You need people that have got that mentality and want to step up."

Fullback Jesse Mogg is one player in particular who needs to step up after a relatively poor outing in Sydney.

"He's done well all year and he's got some really good tools there, if you don't show faith in players then you end up in no man's land," McKenzie explained.

"You'll have a whole heap of players who don't have any confidence and you don't know what your depth is.

"You've got to try to give depth time to build. We'll be at our best if we've got two or three really good options in each position.

"So you've got to give them time to develop, but you haven't got forever. I understand everyone's expectations and the urgency to get on with things.

"We don't have three years to do it, we're always looking for players to bring through."

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