Australia prop Allan Alaalatoa says the Wallabies bench will match the Springboks for impact when the sides do battle on Saturday.

The likes of Bok heavyweights Malcolm Marx, Steven Kitshoff and Franco Mostert have earned a formidable reputation being unleashed as part of the Bomb Squad to demolish opponents in the second half, or even just before half time.

But, Alaalatoa backs the Wallabies bench to meet the challenge head on at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday, with the forwards not giving an inch against the world champions.

“Just what we know of them is South Africa are a team that pride itself on set piece, so I think all the games I’ve been a part of, the forwards have mentioned that we need to take it to them and understand it’s a threat coming against us because they have a world-class pack,” he told reporters on Monday.

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“We understand that around their game, it’s something they pride themselves on and they’ll go to it a lot on Saturday.

“We see their Bomb Squad or their bench sometimes come on in the first half. I think for us, we call our bench ‘The Finishers’ so we’ve gone past the time of the starters playing 80 minutes.

“The guys off the bench have a job to do and that’s to add impact. That’s going to be the impact of our boys and something whoever’s on the bench has that role and making sure they fulfil that.”

Alaalatoa believes Australia are still carrying the hurt of the Argentina defeat in the Rugby Championship a fortnight ago, but will look to translate it into a strong performance against SA.

“I think it’s more the boys are pretty gutted after the last game,” he added.

“We spoke about it as players, and we thought we had the right gameplan in place from the coaches but we just weren’t good enough as players to put on the field and that’s our job. We’ve got to be accountable on that front.”

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