The Wallabies need to win in Melbourne to keep the British & Irish Lions series alive - and stars Tom Wright and Angus Bell are banking on a boost from their reinforcements.
Over 90,000 fans are expected at the MCG on Saturday night, helped along by the return of Will Skelton, Dave Porecki and Rob Valetini to the starting side.
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"The goal to win every week is the unspoken one, I suppose," Wright said to reporters on Thursday.
"Joe speaks about that, like if you start looking too far ahead here, you might fumble, you might trip over multiple things in order to achieve what we're all set out to do. I really like the sort of dialled-in look that we sort of take in terms of our preparation each week.
"That to see a goal is massive support for us, and it helps us win. But for us, like on a Monday to Saturday afternoon sort of preparation, it's very external for us."
"[Will]'s very important to us both in the scrummaging arena, but also the mauling aspect as well," Bell added.
"He's a high-quality mauler, obviously huge, strong, being with La Rochelle for so long and with the Wallabies, that experience he has around mauls and what to do in those areas is really valuable for us.
"Will will do a job for us and we're all just preparing as individuals to do our jobs and then to come together collectively and put it all together and back each other up.
"He's an awesome bloke. He has won a lot and achieved a lot over there, which has been awesome for him to bring back for younger guys like myself."
Skelton and Valetini will be sorely needed, with the Lions naming another imposing outfit that will put a lot of ball in the air.
"We're no stranger to Northern Hemisphere football. We know the aerial raid that's coming again," Wright said.
The way we can nullify that, get numbers behind the ball again. We saw a couple of instances where we're able to shift the ball away from that sort of aerial threat.
"If we're good enough to take those opportunities again, work a little bit more collectively, particularly early in the game, which would be good to get some of our guys involved."
Several of the Wallabies players and squad members went out to the First Nations Pasifika clash, with many noting the physical approach Toutai Kefu's side took to the Lions.
However, Bell admitted that approach hasn't changed what Schmidt has implemented in this week's preparations.
"We've got a plan as a team and we'll keep getting better at that," the prop added.
"It was awesome to see those guys do so well. We had a lot of squad members that went back and played for the First Nations-Pasifika team. We went out and watched it, which was awesome and we were really proud of them.
"They put up an awesome performance. They didn't quite get the chocolates, but they were competitive through the whole time. Really combative, really physical.
"I'm sure most of the boys would have seen that in their performance as we all watched it. We know as a team if we stick to what we say we're going to do and do that on the weekend, we'll be in good stead."
"Bringing the physicality in any game is always going to put you in with a chance, right?," Wright added.
"They got more than just a chance. They were right in that game.
"I've heard a couple of the Lions players mention in their post-game about how physical the game was, how they brought it to them.
"They weren't expecting that so much from the First Nations-Pasifika boys. If there's anything to learn from it, go out, guns blazing, it's going to give you a chance, I think."
The Wallabies will likely have to take a similar approach this weekend if they are to keep the series alive.
It would be a momentous occasion for the Wallabies to produce a famous performance.
Based on ticket sales, Saturday's upcoming test appears to have already surpassed the all-time Lions crowd record of 84,188 who watched the series decider in 2001 in Sydney.
"[We're] not so much thinking about the full game and how there's going to be so many people there, but understanding they're going to be there and how loud that'll be.
"In 10, 15 years' time will I look back on this game? Absolutely. I'm probably never going to play in front of 100,000 people again.
"The enormity of the game is what it is, but we've just got to focus on the actual game. External noise will be there, try our best to block it out.
"Hopefully there's more gold cheering than there is red."
