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He also pointed out that Victoria produced a Wallaby 60 years before WA.
I’d posit that the reason for this was less about the quality of WA Rugby players and more about eastern states selector bias and the tyrrany of distance. This bias existed in 2017, where Cheika found Perth to be so far away that he didn’t atend a single Force game this year, so why wouldn’t it have existed in the 20th century? Other examples include Clyne finding Perth so far away that he had to meet a potential sponsor and largest ever Rugby philanthropist in Adelaide.
His statement, while an undisguised dig at WA Rugby shows that rugby under Clyne willl not have a national footprint, despite the ARU “evidence” that it will.