Wallabies prepare for World Cup opener

Watch: Dan Palmer and Richie Arnold speak ahead of the World Cup opener

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00:00 Is there any sense that it's a bit of a free hit as well?

00:09 No, no, no. I don't see the World Cup as a free hit. We're here to impose ourselves on

00:18 every team we come up against and I think we're in a good position to do that. We plan

00:23 on going deep into this competition.

00:25 We've been working really hard up until this point because we've had to. We've had a new

00:31 group, a young group. We've had to work hard on areas of our game, work hard on our capacity,

00:37 work hard on our ability to adapt and that is reflected in how we've trained. But now,

00:43 like I said, we're into a different phase. We're going into the World Cup now so the

00:47 way we prepare is going to shift accordingly.

00:50 Yeah, excited mate. Here we are, biggest stage at the World Cup. Yeah, just excited mate.

00:57 We're here, all the hard work's done now. We've trained hard for the last eight, nine

01:02 weeks during the Rugby Championship, played a few matches there and we're building and

01:06 yeah, it's all coming up to this match so excited.

01:11 I have. I think I spoke before about it, that spring bock test coming off the bench there.

01:17 It was quite emotional there and yeah, I've thought about it over the last few months

01:21 and that and spoke to my twin brother and it's been a hell of a ride and yeah, it's

01:27 a crazy journey.

01:29 Yeah.

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