Remember when a Michael Cheika-led team overpowered Richie McCaw and Dan Carter in a grand final?
Or when the Queensland Reds ran rings around New Zealand rugby's golden boys in 2011? The jersey colours might be different and the stage much, much bigger, but the Wallabies can call on winning Super Rugby experience to break down the All Blacks aura in the World Cup final. 
Cheika is swapping sky blue of NSW for Wallabies gold in the final against New Zealand at Twickenham in one of the biggest trans-Tasman battles in history. But while Wallabies players and coaches boast grand final wins against All Black champions, Bernard Foley says it won't have a bearing on the result. The Wallabies and All Blacks are competing for a slice of World Cup history, with the winner to become the first country to lift the Webb Ellis Cup three times. The All Blacks boast a squad full of World Cup-winning experience. But the Australians can draw on their Super Rugby triumphs to chase victory. Almost half of the Wallabies' 31-man squad have beaten McCaw and his Canterbury Crusaders in Super Rugby finals. Cheika led the Waratahs to victory last year, with Foley booting a last-minute penalty to secure the first Super Rugby title in NSW history. Four Queensland Reds players were part of the 2011 championship winning side that also beat McCaw's men. Foley says those experiences are nice to have, but won't help the Wallabies rise to World Cup glory.
"You can draw on those big games for sure and it's great to win those, but you can't really compare that to this week or the momentum," Foley said. "What we've done as a side here has been great."