Wallabies on downward spiral, warns Campese

By BEN JAYCOCK

AUSTRALIA legend David Campese has called out the lack of instinctive flair in rugby union and believes the sport has become a carbon copy of what rugby league used to be. Campese, who won 101 Wallabies caps and scored 64 Test tries before retiring in 1998 after a 14-year international career, puts the Wallabies’ first ever World Cup pool stage exit down to panic, coupled with poor leadership shown from chairman Hamish McLennan, which he feels should have resulted in the official standing down. Australia opted to go without 79-Test fly-half Quade Cooper in o...

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