The Wallabies have played down concerns over the playing surface at Hong Kong Stadium as they desperately search for an end to the agony against the All Blacks in Saturday night's fourth Bledisloe Cup Test.

The divots were flying at the 38,000-seat venue during Australia's final training session, sparking fears it will again play poorly, a factor in the corresponding game two years ago which New Zealand won 19-14.

"It looks as though that might be the case and there's not a whole lot we can do about that now," Wallabies captain Rocky Elsom said.

"You get a fair bit of that when you travel.

"Ideally you'd have a nice semi-firm fast track but it doesn't always work like that so we'll just play whatever's out there and deal with it when it comes.

"Those sort of things are not really for us to worry about just at the moment but it looks as though it might be that way."

The largest rough patch formed where the Wallabies forwards had a simulated scrum to work backline moves, without the pack exerting any force.

"We definitely don't want to lose any props, but I'm pretty confident that's not going to happen," Elsom said.

All Blacks captain Richie McCaw said scrum time could be affected.

"That could be a bit of a worry but both teams have just got to deal with it as best we can and hopefully it doesn't impact too much there," he said.

The rough patches on the field could pale into insignificance for Australia compared to the prospect of an 11th straight loss to their Kiwi tormentors.

Breaking that drought would put the spring into their spring tour and Elsom suggested the Wallabies could take something from their hoodoo-busting effort in Bloemfontein two months ago as they approached the ever-growing hurdle.

"You look at that win in South Africa," he said.

"We came pretty close the week before and played very well but to get over the line makes a really big difference and we were able to do that in Bloemfontein.

"We couldn't do it in Sydney (a 23-22 loss to NZ).

"The win would be a massive boost.

"What happens after that it's hard to say but, as far as this game (is concerned), we couldn't want to win it any more."

Elsom said the Wallabies had improved over the period of the losing streak, which now stretches back to July 2008.

"The games that are gone via last year and earlier in the series, I think we've moved a fair way on from that," he said.

"The last game we played against them was a bit more of an indication of how we need to be playing and (we know) where we fell down."

Around 26,000 tickets have been sold for the match, which kicks off at 4.30pm local time (1930 AEDT).

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