Hoodoo? Who do you think you’re kidding?

For Wallabies hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau, Saturday’s test at Eden Park against the All Blacks isn’t just about the Bledisloe Cup, it’s also to end that hoodoo.

The last time Australia defeated New Zealand at Eden

Park was in 1986, winning 22-9.

Since then, while they’ve managed wins at the stadium in the Rugby World Cup, it’s been an unhappy hunting ground for the Wallabies when facing the All Blacks.

It’s not just in test rugby where PolotaNau has done it tough at Eden Park – he says his only win there in Super Rugby against the Blues was back in 2009.

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make the

Wallabies even bigger outsiders this weekend. Their chances of winning the Bledisloe Cup for the first time since 2002 seem distant.

But if they were to get up, it would make the third test in the series, in Yokohama, Japan, a live rubber.

‘‘We need to be in contention for the Bledisloe, so we need to do everything we can to make sure we get the win,’’ Polota-Nau said.

‘‘Although we haven’t won there [for 32 years], it’s an even bigger challenge being 1-0 down in the series.

‘‘So there’s no better challenge for us as a group to prepare accordingly and don’t even consider whatever they call the hoodoo of Eden Park. I’ve played there quite a few times, only managed to win once.

‘‘But in saying that, we have to make sure we use that one opportunity and reminisce on the good times.

‘‘My biggest motivator is to win again at Eden Park.’’

For Wallabies outside back Jack Maddocks, the Eden Park hoodoo means nothing.

He made his test debut last weekend and his only Super Rugby memory of Eden Park is a positive one.

‘‘I’ve played there once and we won, this year for the Rebels. So, what hoodoo?’’ Maddocks laughed at the team’s media session yesterday.

Although the scoreline was lopsided against the Wallabies last weekend, they’re not going into this test feeling like it’s going to be a fruitless mission.

If they can replicate that first half an hour for a whole game, they are in with a shot.

‘‘Keeping the intensity for the whole 80 minutes,’’ was Maddocks’ answer when asked what the Wallabies need to do.

‘‘We started well and we’ve just got to keep putting pressure on the All Blacks and hopefully we’ll start to see them crack.’’

Polota-Nau agreed with his younger team-mate, that they need to go into this test with a similar game plan, but execute it from start to finish.

‘‘If we can maintain the pressure we had on them throughout the whole 80 minutes, it would be a different ball game,’’ he said.