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Wallabies Rugby World Cup challenge is blooming in Brisbane sun | Chris Hewett

Success in France in two years’ time for Australia will rest on the crop of young players emerging under Brad Thorn at Queensland Reds, writes Chris Hewett

Queensland Reds head coach Brad Thorn

 

 

The last we saw of Australia at a World Cup, they were being eaten for breakfast by England. Michael Cheika, their coach, spent the entire tournament at boiling point – no surprise there – but his team had a softer centre than a 30- second egg. They were not even a shell of their former selves, having left the shell back in Sydney.
Humiliations on the scale of that 40-16 defeat on quarter-final day in Oita can have one of two effects: either they signal the start of a multicycle slump in international performance, or they result in a “ground zero” approach to building back better, to bo...

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