Wallabies vs Lions finale will provide Erasmus with priceless information

THE big question ahead of tomorrow's final Test match between the British and Irish Lions and Australia in Sydney is: who wants it more?

- MIKE GREENAWAY

Few will be more glued to their screens than Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus, as the teams contest a dead rubber match.

The Lions are 2-0 up in the series and have said they would love to make it three-zip — but do they want it that much?

And will the Aussies be able to replicate their magnificent showing last week, when they came within 30 seconds of levelling the series?

The Wallabies delivered their best performance in more than four years to almost upset a Lions side that had been in a different class in the first Test. Nobody saw an Australian revival coming, but it came to pass — and it is a pity, from a neutral point of view, that the Australians could not close the game out to guarantee a decider on Saturday.

What was clear from last week’s cliffhanger at the Melbourne Cricket Ground — that wonderful cathedral of Aussie sport — is that the Wallabies did not have the legs to close out the game.