YOU would have thought that with Rugby Union in Australia languishing behind Aussie Rules, Rugby League, and soccer, the Wallabies would be keen to put their players in front of the British Press this autumn.
Think again. Instead of making players available this week there was no official access – this despite the UK rugby public knowing little about most of Michael Cheika’s squad.
These days it is common practice for international rugby squads to make no more than a handful of their players available to the Press over the course of a week. This contrasts with the big American p...