Australian coach Rod Macqueen warned the Wallabies today that Jonah Lomu would be only one of their worries in Saturday night's Bledisloe Cup Test at Stadium Australia.

As the Wallabies aim to cement their place as the best team in the world and, statistically, the best in Australian history, Lomu is one of many danger men in the revamped, refreshed All Blacks.

Humiliated by last year's 28-7 loss to Australia at the Olympic stadium and their early exit from the World Cup, the All Blacks this season installed a new coach, new captain and, according to Macqueen, a new attacking approach.

"The big difference this year is they've got so many attacking options, players like (Ron) Cribb, (Tana) Umaga and Jonah Lomu," Macqueen said. "It mixes it up, whereas Lomu was one of their main attacking forces in the past. And you can start to add people like Christian Cullen and it keeps going.

"That makes it very dangerous. You can't target any one as a big danger player because they have so many of them."

Macqueen was also wary of the danger Lomu may present when he comes in off his wing.

"We suspect that Jonah will probably be used a little in close, a little bit more perhaps than in the last couple of Tests so that's going to be a very big issue for us as far as defence is concerned."

Macqueen ignored the statistics when he described the game as the biggest in the Wallabies' 10 Test schedule this year. A win would set an Australian record 11th Test success in a row, beating the mark set in 1991-92 and 1998.

But, more importantly for Macqueen, it would keep the Bledisloe Cup here for an unprecedented third successive series and set the world champions off to a flying start in their campaign to win a first Tri Nations title.

"It's the most important game this year for us and I'm sure it's the most important game all year for the All Blacks as well," he said.

New All Black coach Wayne Smith is only too aware of the significance of his first trans-Tasman Test, his biggest challenge after three huge wins over Tonga and Scotland in the last month.

"We know the importance of the occasion, there's no getting away from that, the challenge is putting a lid on that," Smith said. "It's certainly a big one, we can't win the Bledisloe Cup unless we win this game."

A win over the world champions would also tame the angry crowds in New Zealand who have had an unfamiliar taste of defeat in recent years after being so used to winning for so long.

Smith had adopted a "horses for courses" approach in the 102-0 thrashing of Tonga and the two heavy defeats of Scotland but acknowledged the horses most suited to tomorrow's course are the best ones available.

That meant dropping revered flanker Josh Kronfeld to the bench and bringing in Scott Robertson to provide some rugged defence and recalling former captain Taine Randell to the blindside flank and elusive centre Pita Alatini.

Robertson, Alatini, No.8 Cribb and skipper and second rower Todd Blackadder will all be playing their first Bledisloe Test and are the only new faces from the team beaten here last year.

The Wallabies have seven players missing from last year's team but are actually strengthened by the inclusion of captain John Eales and flyhalf Stephen Larkham who were injured for much of 1999.

Australian officials were confident the world record rugby crowd of 107,042 set at last year's Bledisloe Test at the Olympic stadium would be broken with close to 108,000 tickets already sold and just on 1,000 still available.

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