After a rollercoaster career of brilliant form, feuds and fall outs, QuadeCooper’s improbable return to the Wallabies is the story we needed in 2021, writes Wayne Smith. | OPINION
It was very much a sports fan moment yesterday, as though Susie O’Neill had suddenly announced “Be blowed with this deputy chef de mission nonsense, I’m getting back in the pool”. Or Matty Hayden the dust blowing dust off his favorite old willow and declaring “Bring on the Ashes!”might well be many people’s idea of a rugby nightmare.
He lurched on under Deans but the relationship became progressively more toxic. When McKenzie took over, all of Cooper’s Christmases should have come at once, but ‘Link’s’ fatal flaw was that he did not want to be seen as too closely aligned with the Queenslanders. When it all turned ugly – refer to the Kurtley Beale mentioned above – he had, as Elton John might have phrased it, no-one to cling to when the rain set in.
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