Former All Blacks star Jeff Wilson has claimed that Dave Rennie’s men were better prepared than the Wallabies, who were lulled into a “false sense of security” by their Springboks triumph.

New Zealand had not played for almost a month following Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series but they were too strong for their trans-Tasman rivals on Saturday.

Australia’s previous Test came two weeks prior to the Eden Park encounter when they stunningly overcame the back-to-back world champions 42-38.

However, South Africa fielded a much-changed outfit for that clash with Rassie Erasmus opting to experiment following the victory over the All Blacks.

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“I was hoping I would see that performance on the back of the challenges against South Africa and what we saw was a team that was too big and too strong over 80 minutes,” Wilson said on The Breakdown.

“It got to the second half and we continued that resilient play; the physicality, the brutality they were looking for, the Wallabies couldn’t handle it.

“I think they had a false sense of security coming into that game, they didn’t understand what playing against a top Springbok team meant and the All Blacks came in prepared.

“We introduced some players back into international rugby that hadn’t played for a while and they performed well.”

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