Rocky Elsom says there's no chance of a Wallabies hangover hindering their chances of conquering the All Blacks in Saturday night's Bledisloe Cup and Tri Nations encounter at ANZ Stadium.

The Wallabies are coming off the high of upstaging the world champion Springboks 16-9 in Perth last Saturday night, while the All Blacks will be desperate to bounce back from a painful, last-minute 30-28 loss to South Africa in their last outing in Dunedin two weeks ago.

But Elsom insists the Wallabies will have no trouble maintaining the intensity for the first of four Bledisloe Cup clashes in 2008 - and the first in Sydney since 2005.

"There definitely will be a letdown if we lose," the classy flanker said today.

"I mean, we're coming here to win. So if we get let down, it will only be because we lost.


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