World Cup payday for SBW and Benji

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SONNY Bill Williams and Benji Marshall will each pocket a cool $150,000 if they help the All Blacks retain the World Cup in 2015.

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As part of a new players' enterprise agreement announced on Wednesday by the NZRU, All Blacks players will receive individual bonuses of $150,000 if they become the first team in history to win back-to-back World Cups in England.

The handsome sum would be a top-up to annual salaries and match payments, which for the highest-paid players already reaches up to $NZ2 million.

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Williams is a certainty to be in the All Blacks side if fit, given he was the best centre in the game when he returned to the NRL this year.

Williams is being tipped to rejoin New Zealand rugby and the Chiefs following this season with the Sydney Roosters.

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Marshall will have his work cut out. The 28-year-old is joining the Blues next season but has not played a professional game of rugby.

There is a long line of capable playmakers and utilities in New Zealand that Marshall must out-do to stake his claim for the 2015 campaign.

However, as witnessed in the 2011 World Cup and again this week, playmaking stocks can fall rapidly in New Zealand.

To claim the William Webb Ellis trophy 8-7 against France in the 2011 decider, the All Blacks relied on the boot of fourth-choice five-eighth Stephen Donald whose 46th minute penalty turned out to be the winning play.

Donald was on a fishing holiday when called into the squad after Dan Carter and Colin Slade were injured, and then took the field when Aaron Cruden went down with injury in the final.

On Thursday, the All Blacks will name their squad to face the Wallabies in the second Bledisloe Cup Test and will again be without their first three choices, with Carter, Cruden and Beauden Barrett sidelined with injury.

Cruden and Barrett both sustained their injuries in last week's demolition of the Wallabies in Sydney.

New Zealand coach Steve Hansen will go with the previously tried Slade, or the untested but exciting Tom Taylor, 24-year-old son of former All Black Warwick Taylor.

Whoever they go with, the Kiwis will start as raging $1.18 favourites with the bookies, with Australia out to $4.75.

For Marshall, the selection will be a reminder that even if he starts at the bottom of the pecking order, things can change quickly.

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