Cheika sends Wallabies to the country to build fitness


  • Rugby
  • Friday, 14 Jul 2017

Australia head coach Michael Cheika attends a news conference after the Rugby World Cup 2019 pool draw at Kyoto State Guest House in Kyoto, Japan May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia coach Michael Cheika will run his players through two training camps in rural New South Wales before the Wallabies begin their unlikely quest to wrest back the Bledisloe Cup from New Zealand.

The Wallabies have not held the symbol of trans-Tasman supremacy since 2003 and a patchy June international campaign have greatly diminished Australian optimism about doing so this year.

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