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MELBOURNE : Number eight Hoskins Sotutu will have big shoes to fill as replacement for dynamo Ardie Savea when defending champions New Zealand bid for back-to-back Rugby Championship wins with victory over Australia in Melbourne on Thursday.
Lock Brodie Retallick will begin his first game for New Zealand since fracturing a cheekbone against Ireland, in one of two All Blacks changes announced on Tuesday for the midweek Rugby Championship clash with Australia.
All Blacks coach Ian Foster has backed forward Ardie Savea's decision not to travel to Australia for New Zealand's upcoming Rugby Championship clash with the Wallabies in Melbourne on Thursday, ahead of the birth of his third child.
New Zealand forwards coach Jason Ryan on Sunday called for consistency after the 53-3 thrashing of Argentina, saying it should not take a setback to fire up the All Blacks.
All Blacks coach Ian Foster called his team's crushing 53-3 bonus point victory over Argentina on Saturday "ruthless" as New Zealand bounced back from their first-ever loss on home soil against the South Americans last week.
A rampant New Zealand put their troubles behind them to beat Argentina 53-3 in their Rugby Championship Test in Hamilton on Saturday, producing an emphatic display to avenge last week's shock loss to the Pumas.
Ian Foster could be about to discover the dreaded vote of confidence is not exclusive to soccer.
New Zealand coach Ian Foster says that Argentina's surge as an international rugby force is partly down to their players' absence from the exhaustive demands of Super Rugby.