Feeney believes the team no longer holds any fears playing big games away from home, despite a disappointing Ranfurly Shield challenge last month.
"In the past few years, our away record has been dismal, but we have only lost one game away from home this year. Unfortunately it was the Shield challenge. But we beat Counties Manukau, put 50 on Waikato and beat Tasman down there when they were unbeaten. The away doesn't concern us anymore with this young group," he said.
Potent off turnover ball and threatening on the counter, Auckland gave Tasman a lesson in high octane attacking rugby last Friday night.
"We're a bunch of young boys and Tasman were men, but we bullied the bully. Our physicality killed them. They couldn't handle it. We got ruck ball and scored some great tries."
Feeney revealed that he subbed imposing No 8 Akira Ioane at the 55 minute mark as he was sitting on two yellow cards. A third would have ruled him out of the final. The 20-year-old played down his impact, but Feeney called him a "freak" and he will give Canterbury captain and No 8 Luke Whitelock, an industrious but more limited player, plenty to ponder.
Auckland will need to shore up their scrum, and should have loosehead prop Sam Prattley back to combat All Black Nepo Laulala.
Auckland will field two All Blacks - the midfield pairing of George Moala and Charlie Piutau - while Canterbury should have no less than six suiting up.
The Auckland class of 2012 contained some seasoned campaigners such as Daniel Braid, Tom McCartney, Hadleigh Parkes and Ali Williams mixed with some brilliant young talent such as Malakai Fekitoa and Steven Luatua. A 19-year-old Joe Edwards started at No 8.
But they were defeated 31-18 by a Canterbury side that included seven of the team that will run out on Saturday night. Fullback Tom Taylor posted 23 points and he will be after a memorable sendoff before he heads to Toulon. The former All Black underlined his worth with 10 out of 10 in a flawless goalkicking display in the 46-20 semifinal win over Taranaki on the weekend.
Current Canterbury coach Scott Robertson was assistant coach to Tabai Matson then, and the Cantabs were winning their fifth of six titles on the bounce.
The overall ledger still sees Auckland at the top of the provincial championships list, with 16 since the NPC was inaugurated in 1976. All of those titles were won from 1982-2007.
Canterbury sits on 11, all bar two of them achieved in the professional era.