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Wallabies looking for plan to counter SBW
Ben Horne, NZ Newswire
Updated August 2, 2012, 9:45 pm
The Wallabies will look to settle on Pat McCabe's replacement at No.12 as soon as possible as Robbie Deans weighs up the best way to rein in All Blacks powerhouse Sonny Bill Williams.
However, coaching coordinator Tony McGahan says the selection will be more about how Australia want to play in the first two Bledisloe Cup Tests rather than reacting to the dangers of SBW.
Australia are hopeful McCabe (leg stress fracture), James O'Connor (hamstring) and Wycliff Palu (shoulder) will be available for the third Test of the Rugby Championship against the Springboks in Perth on September 8.
But in the meantime, the Wallabies face the enormous task of winning back the Bledisloe for the first time in a decade without two of their key backline stars.
Despite the loss in experience, McGahan says the belief is still there.
"You want to be giving players the opportunity to train there and then be able to settle on that and give the whole team and the individual time ... and confidence," said McGahan from a training camp in Sydney on Thursday.
"Our primary focus will be how we want to play and how we want to defend. We'll look at the make-up of what they're going to come with, but it's what we want to deliver more so than what the opposition want to throw at us."- < Previous
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Chiefs 22 (Cruden 3 penalties, Tries SBW and Tamalolo - Sharks 26
Reply@Fred, at least we dont kill each other. Remember the 70+ spectators that were killed in that soccer game in Egypt? Be careful in what you say you idiot. What ever rugby has done to vent your hatred towards it, really, it cannot be compared to the evil that exist in your beloved sport, & as a rugby lover, I really do like soccer, loved the All Whites during thier WC so pull your head in.
2 RepliesRubme (rugby) will never be popular around the world. Never has been, never will be. Basically real men baulk at the idea of male on male contact and getting a little too up close and personal with other mens gonads. Popular in NZ it seems but I recently read that rubme has falling numbers and that more Kiwis play soccer than rubme. The RWC lost a lot of money and a lot of Kiwis are sick of huge 'men' rolling around on the grass with each other pretending they are looking for a ball.
2 RepliesEL dunce, you can ignore the facts but you cant ignore them ,mugby is only big in thinly populated N.Z and a couple of sinking islands that rely on .N.Z for donations
4 RepliesOh Gee..just when you think it's safe to go back in the water,the Woofie Phoofie wanker wakes up and reads the first chapter from his book of empty words again. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Ah..what happened to Stu-pid, Whoofie?? too hard for you to maintain an alter ego, eh! I see the Oly Wollys are coming home early...again!
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