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All Blacks thrash Wallabies to put one hand on title

:The All Blacks put one hand on the Rugby Championship trophy with a convincing 40-14 bonus victory over an error-prone and ill-disciplined Wallabies side at Auckland's Eden Park on Saturday.

The victory means the Springboks will also need to secure a bonus point and beat Argentina by at least 39 points in the final match of the championship in Durban later on Saturday to take the title back to South Africa.

New Zealand hammered the Australians at the breakdown and a Will Jordan score supplemented by a penalty try helped them to a comfortable 17-0 lead after a fractious first half which saw two Wallabies sent to the sin bin.

All Blacks skipper Sam Whitelock crossed for a third try soon after the break and hooker Codie Taylor and his replacement Samisoni Taukei'aho added further five-pointers to seal a third win a row in what has been a stop-start season.

"Really, really happy with the defence (and) it was nice to put some good moments on moments there," said lock Whitelock.

"That's what we've been trying to do all the time and it's nice when it starts to happen."

The Wallabies scored consolation tries through replacements Folau Fainga'a and Jordan Petaia in the last quarter of the match but never looked like breaking their 36-year winless streak against the All Blacks at Eden Park.

"Two yellow cards in the first half really put us on the back foot," said captain James Slipper.

"That's a very disappointing outcome for us. Far too much dropped ball and too many penalties put us under pressure. It just wasn't good enough."

The Wallabies, who had a mathematical shot at the title going into the match, reprised their boomerang response to the haka but otherwise fell well short of the standards they set in last week's 39-37 loss to the

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