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Tickets go on sale today for the All Blacks' only rugby test on Australian soil this year as Wallabies coach John Connolly urged Melbourne sports fans to get behind the home side.
The Australian Rugby Union yesterday launched ticket sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, venues for Wallabies' home tests in World Cup year.
The All Blacks have not played at the MCG since 1998 when Taine Randell's side lost 16-24 to John Eales' Wallabies. The transtasman test ledger is 1-1 at the MCG, with the All Blacks winning the 1997 test 33-18.