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Chris Hewett: Geoff Parling is thriving as the quiet ‘Australian’

By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed

Whatever lights might be hidden under rugby’s bushel, precious few of them belong to Australian coaches.
Alan Jones, who shaped the seminal Wallaby grand slammers of the 1984, loved nothing more than the sound of his own voice; Bob Dwyer, who secured a first world title for his brashly ambitious nation, would have measured 11 on the 10-point scale of self-confidence.
John Connolly? Michael Cheika? “Fast” Eddie Jones? These people could talk the hind legs off a dingo.
All of which makes Joe Schmidt a real, present and very different kind of danger to the B...

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