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• Cooper must share the load more: Deans

  

  Adding fuel to the Wallabies selection fire, coach Robbie Deans says Quade Cooper needs to be less tackle-shy and share playmaking duties because his attacking game has become predictable.

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• British Lions vs the Wallabies: Shaping up for the show-down

  

  IN THE DEN | Charlie Inglefield, Australian Times rugby correspondent recently returned from down under, assesses the forthcoming Lions series in Australia and contemplates each team’s chances in what promises to be one of the most exciting rugby duals seen in recent years.

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• Top Wallabies must pick up act for Lions

  

  Only a handful of Robbie Deans’ established Test team which ended last season would be currently picked in a form Australian side.

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• Pocock contender for captain after re-signing with Wallabies

  

  Wallabies flanker David Pocock is a strong chance to captain Australia at the 2015 World Cup after re-signing with the ARU for three more years.

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• Wallabies Report Card: Season 2012 assessed

  

  Following the end of the Wallabies’ winter tour, CHARLIE INGLEFIELD assesses the successes and failures of this season, the team’s areas of strength and what can be improved upon with a huge series against the British Lions coming up next year.

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• Cooper can have half my pay: Sonny Bill Williams

  

  Sonny Bill Williams wants to offer half his 2013 pay packet to Quade Cooper in a bid to lure the ex-Wallabies five-eighth to the NRL.

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• McKibbin called up for Test debut against Wales

  

  NSW Waratahs halfback Brendan McKibbon has been summoned to join the Wallabies squad for the final test of their European tour against Wales.

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• Wallaby Higginbotham has no regrets

  

  Scott Higginbotham insists he doesn’t regret what he did to Richie McCaw but admits learning a lesson from the incident which initially cost him a place on the Wallabies’ Europe rugby tour.

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• Quade Cooper set to quit the Wallabies

  

  Wallaby flyhalf Quade Cooper has rejected an incentive-based contract offer by the Australian Rugby Union and may pursue other opportunities, local media has reported

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• Wallabies’ win offers selection posers

  

  Coach Robbie Deans faces some welcome selection issues after the Wallabies got their European tour back on track with a gallant, bruising win over England.

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• Wallabies beat England 20-14

  

  The Wallabies broke their try-scoring drought and helped ease the pressure on coach Robbie Deans with a 20-14 rugby win over England at Twickenham.

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• Wallabies hoping for eighth time lucky with centre pairing

  

  Ben Tapuai and Adam Ashley-Cooper will become the Wallabies’ eighth centre pairing used in 13 Tests this year when they take on England at Twickenham.

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• Wallabies coach Deans should be sacked: Campese

  

  Former Test star David Campese says Wallabies coach Robbie Deans should be sacked for “destroying Australian rugby”.

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• Hooper – English blood, Aussie passion

  

  There’s every chance Wallabies flanker Michael Hooper will be more English than at least some of the men in white he’ll face at Twickenham this weekend.

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• Wallabies line-up best bet against the Poms

  

  Berrick Barnes is expected to be among a raft of changes Wallabies coach Robbie Deans will make to his starting line up to face England this weekend as the Australians look to get their European tour back on track.

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• Ashley-Cooper bracing for fiery French at European tour opener

  

  Last time Adam Ashley-Cooper played a Test at Stade de France, he walked off the ground with a mouthful of stitches looking like he just got mugged.

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• Quade Cooper cops fine over Wallabies rant

  

  A contrite Quade Cooper has apologised for behaviour that fell below Wallabies standards after being fined at least $40,000 and handed a suspended three-match ban on Monday for two breaches of the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) code of conduct.

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• All Blacks fuming at Wallabies’ poaching

  ALL BLACKS gripes about Australia poaching their players have been met with both astonishment and wry grins.

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• Beale hopes Cooper sticks around

  

  Coach Robbie Deans wants Kurtley Beale and his Melbourne Rebels halves partner Nick Phipps to be more proactive at Suncorp Stadium than the Wallabies were in the first two Bledisloe clashes
  Beale knows they must be on top of their game on Saturday to compete against the world champions.

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• Badger ready to rip in for Wallabies

  

  In the rugby and animal kingdom, a Puma shouldn’t have problems with a honey badger but Argentina should be warned about Australia’s latest call-up, Nick Cummins.

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