Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, has become increasingly keen on establishing a franchise in London, having been impressed by the success of the one-off matches staged there.
"I felt with the squad we had assembled in the summer that we would be difficult to beat in one-off matches.
"There's no doubt these guys [New Zealand], traditionally for some reason, play better in tournaments than in one-off matches but we're not looking at what has happened in the last couple of years," Smith adds.
The Wallabies are on the up, the only direction they could take given the state they were in a year ago before Michael Cheika took over, and well-equipped for one-off matches.
It has not been a vintage Six Nations and the All Blacks are way ahead of everybody else but World Cups are about one-off matches, not the form book, as the All Blacks have found in the past more than once.
"The one thing we are good at is winning the big games and teams do not like playing us in one-off matches.
Ireland also played one-off matches at Stormont against the two teams.
However, he was yet to play in the Sheffield Shield competition, having appeared only in one-off matches.
However, Miller was yet to play in the Sheffield Shield competition, only taking to the field in one-off matches against other teams.
It was also his first Sheffield Shield match; his previous appearances for Victoria in interstate games were in seasons where the competition was called off due to war and replaced by one-off matches.
Ebsary had a successful time in the domestic T20s, now part of a full interstate tournament instead of a series of one-off matches, scoring 137 runs at 22.83 and taking four wickets at 26.25 at an economy rate of 7.50.
