Jade, a year 10 pupil at Kavanagh College, has lived almost as long as the All Blacks' stranglehold on the cup.
And she will be in the stands tonight as the side looks to extend the Australians' cup drought to well over a dozen years.
Jade was born in Christchurch but moved to Perth at early age and lived there until she was 10 before returning to New Zealand and eventually finding her way south to Dunedin.
So, we asked her, when she was in Australia, did she switch allegiance and support our brothers from across the Tasman?
``Hell no. You would never do that. You had to rub it in whenever you could,'' she said.
The Wallabies last held the Bledisloe Cup in 2002 and then lost it the next year when Jade was still crawling.
Now, some 15 series later, the Australians will have to win tonight's match at Forsyth Barr Stadium to have any hope of getting the hefty silverware back.
Jade, who is a great niece of the late Ben Couch, a seven-match All Black in the late 1940s and later, in the late 1970s a minister of police and minister of Maori affairs, will get her first chance tonight to see the All Blacks in the flesh.
She is looking forward to the experience and is predicting an All Black victory, which will mean the team retains the cup for another year.
Jade plays rugby for her schoolgirls under-15 side, which has its own final next week against St Hilda's Collegiate.
There are under 1000 tickets left for tonight's game. They can be bought from www.allblacks.com/tickets or from Forsyth Barr Stadium box office from 10am today.
