It has been almost a week ago since the Wallabies suffered a shellacking in the hands of the All Blacks, but Australian team coach Ewen McKenzie has no intention of making his boys forget about it, totally, and move on.

It was raining hard in Wellington on Thursday. The players were at the team room in their hotel and they were in for a treat - their game against New Zealand last Saturday played repeatedly.

''I put it on today, and they're all in there sitting and watching it, having lunch and watching,'' Ewen McKenzie told the Sydney Morning Herald.

''You've got to live in the real world. I've worked out when you travel around and you're in hotel rooms, you live in this detached world where you play and you go back [to the hotel], you're in the training environment and preparing, but the real world is out there.''

McKenzie reiterated the fact that he has given his players, who took part in their thrashing last Saturday, the chance to redeem themselves.

''The shop front of the real world is the game, that's where millions of people are watching, that's your best chance to make a statement,'' he said. ''That shop front has got to be how you want to be represented. We'll do whatever we can around the edges to make sure they're prepared. In the end when they're in the shop front, that's what everyone's got left to reference us by. We're trusting them to showcase us in the right way.''

The Wallabies mentor was still not over the loss and implied that he is going to use the team's emotions to their favor.

''I've played plenty of games and I don't suffer losing,'' he said.

''I can't sit there and pretend four or five days later that I'm happy and it's all been forgotten. I'm angry and I know the players are in the same space.

''You have to have that anger about your personal performance. In the end you're getting a great opportunity to play against the most consistent team in the world and that's where you benchmark yourself. If you come up short and you're a competitive guy you've got to say, 'What am I going to do about that'.''

More often than not, a team's performance will depend on how the players contributed, but McKenzie, as a coach, acknowledged that there were facets of the game which were not addressed when they were preparing before the opener.

''I think last week was a bit skewed based on the short preparation,'' he said.

''We spent a lot more time on attack than we did on other parts of the game, so we've addressed that this week.''

McKenzie is all hopes that the likes of Matt Toomua and Jesse Mogg, who were able to put up a scintillating display of form during the Super Rugby season, would radiate to the second game of the Bledisloe Cup.

''[Mogg] has done well all year and he's got some really good tools there,'' he said.

''If you don't show faith in players then you end up in no man's land. You'll have a whole heap of players who don't have any confidence and you don't know what your depth is.''

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