Wallabies fly-half Quade Cooper will still see action coming off the bench on Saturday's Bledisloe Cup fixture. Ewen McKenzie has opted to utilize efficient Brumbies rookie Matt Toomua to do the playmaking chores for the Australians.

However, Cooper's benching has been overshadowed by the booing of the New Zealand crowd against him.

Cooper's antics were refreshed in the memories of the All Blacks fans, particularly, the knee-to-the-head incident against Kiwis Captain Richie

McCaw when the Tri Nations final game was played back in 2011.

With calls from different personalities, including McCaw and the All Blacks camp, for the booing to be put to a halt, McKenzie joined the cause in defending Cooper and showed disapproval of the acts of the New Zealand fans.

''I think if you actually ask people, you'll probably wonder why they do it. They do it because other people do it,'' McKenzie told the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH).

''Whether it's an attractive part of the game, I doubt it, we've just got to move on from this, I don't think it adds to anything.''

He backed up statements made by All Blacks Coach Steve Hansen who indicated that while the entire scuffle was attributable to Cooper, he, nevertheless, deserves forgiveness.

''... Probably it would be good if we all got over it ... I don't boo him and I'll continue not to boo him. I think he's a good player, I think he's not a bad bloke either when you have a quiet chat to him,'' Hansen told SMH.

Furthermore, McKenzie called for the fans to reconsider their behavior.

''If you actually turn the tables, if people actually for a moment took a second and said 'If that was me standing out there or that was my child standing out there, would I be doing it'?'' said McKenzie.

''You might have a different outcome.''

Regardless of the odds weighing against them, McKenzie remains positive coming into Saturday's match and pledged to prove the naysayers wrong.

''Tell me a team that has got a good record over here, the job is to come over here and change that, not just come here and accept history,'' he said.

''In the end teams do come here and win and teams do come here and push the All Blacks, that's what we've got to do. ... when you make line breaks and turn the ball over that's not a great scenario because it puts your defence under extreme pressure. When you make line breaks you want to score tries, so we need to tidy that up and we need to defend a bit better.''

The Wallabies coach was firm in retaining the same starters in spite of their unimpressive performance during during the first Bledisloe Test of 2013.

''I don't pick people or get rid of people [based] on one game, you've got to have a good look at the whole detail,'' he said.

''You've got to back [Toomua], there is a reason why we picked him. We didn't quite get to where we wanted to in terms of how we wanted to play, so we'll have another look.''

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