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ANY back-slapping for the Wallabies closing the gap on the All Blacks is surely misplaced when climbing the greatest mountain as clinical closers in these Bledisloe Cup stoushes is still to be conquered.
You rarely, if ever, get second chances against the All Blacks, which is the foreboding that was on Thursday packed in the luggage hold of Qantas Flight 147 as it flew out from Sydney to surprising clearer weather in Auckland for Saturday's big Test.
That's the fallout of the unpalatable 12-all draw last weekend. Instead of blowing a hole in the bank vault for a heist of the Bledisloe Cup, the All Blacks have been gifted a week to change the safe's combination, add extra guards and coat it further in unbreachable black cement.
The folklore of the Wallabies reserves a special place for "the tackle" made by George Gregan and "the kick" of John Eales to grab Bledisloe Cup glory.
In the fine print somewhere should be "the poor pass", "the rubbish kick", "the mix-up", "the carve-up", "the non-tackle" and "the dodgy refereeing call" which have all contributed to Australia's pain at Eden Park in their run of 14 straight losses there to the All Blacks.
We wouldn't be having another hoodoo session with our local shrink if the 2006 Wallabies had converted their superb 20-11 half-time lead or Berrick Barnes's flip ball had connected with something other than George Smith's head with the tryline beckoning in 2009.
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Instead of a 17-3 jump, it was bye-bye Bledisloe for another season. Winning in Auckland is that hard.
Eden Park, with its perpetually skiddy turf, does faze the Wallabies. Remember all those lineball refereeing calls from Jaco Peyper that went the Wallabies' way in Sydney last weekend? The home town factor will have many of those marginal calls go against the men in gold in Auckland under Romain Poite.
In Wellington last year, there wasn't even a referral to the video ref when hooker Stephen Moore may have smeared the ball on the tryline. No try, no Bledisloe.
Botched kick-off receptions, charged down kicks, stepping into touch, being in front of the kicker at the kick-off ... somehow the Wallabies overcame all those messy moments to admirably reach 12-all. Those cuts by their own hand will convert to a 15-point loss in Auckland.
Captain Michael Hooper's ability to explode into contact when running with the ball was superb. Will Skelton did something few manage against the All Blacks.
When he crashed through Ben Franks and forced Kieran Read and Keven Mealamu to help out on the tackle, he had skittled three All Blacks out of the defensive line and on to the turf. Give him more than 10 minutes in Auckland.
Not all Wallabies teams of recent years truly believed they could win at Eden Park.
This side does but save the back-slapping until they actually nail it.
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