Cooper: I won’t play for Wallabies
28 Sep 2012
Quade Cooper has unequivocally announced that he would not want to play for the Wallabies even if he was fit.
The injured flyhalf has been in the news following his scathing attack on the Wallabies coaching staff and a team environment he described as toxic. On Thursday night, he reiterated his stance when he spoke live on Australian television.
‘I’m just striving to be the best that I can be and that’s why I said I didn’t want to be involved in that kind of environment,’ Cooper said. ‘For me to continue to improve as a player and as a person you want to be in the best possible environment and I feel that that environment is destroying me as a person and as a player, so that I can’t do the best that I can do to represent my country and my family and my friends, to the best of my ability.’
Cooper is currently unavailable because of injury, and is unlikely to recover in time for the Wallabies’ end-of-year tour. But even if he was fit, he claims that he wouldn’t want to be involved.
‘No, like I said, the environment there at the moment is one that I don’t feel comfortable in and if I don’t feel comfortable and if I don’t feel that I can give 100% for my country and that yellow jersey, that’s a very big problem,’ he said.
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28 Sep 2012, 10:04 am
Rebellious dragon.
28 Sep 2012, 10:06 am
@WP-Forever-1: He is a toolbag of note! Definitely in my top 5 “rugby palooka’s”
28 Sep 2012, 10:07 am
His 2011 Super Rugby form was insane. Put Spencer to shame to be honest.
But like Spencer, he can’t seem to really step up when it comes to test rugby.
28 Sep 2012, 10:09 am
Kevin Pieterson, Quade Cooper…too many of these prima donna’s in sports these days IMO.
28 Sep 2012, 10:18 am
Oh well, i guess one has to respect him for taking a stand whether one agrees with him or not. At least he did it in the open unlike Pietersen who blackmouthed his captain behind his back in what was supposed to be ‘confidential” messages.
28 Sep 2012, 10:24 am
Each to their own, I suppose. No man (or woman) is bigger than any game.
28 Sep 2012, 10:25 am
well then f uk off quade.
28 Sep 2012, 10:37 am
Quade really calling out his team. Wonder how the other players feel about his comments.
28 Sep 2012, 10:37 am
@rangerman-7:
agree. What a joke. this is agent driven.
How can you not want represent your country because you dont like the facilitices??? etc?????
cry baby
28 Sep 2012, 10:40 am
Well his test days are over.
Nobody is bigger than the game, not even you Quade believe it or not.
28 Sep 2012, 10:46 am
@greatest13gerber-9: its not the facilities as much as deans i think.
but he will learn the hard way that the game is bigger than any player.
28 Sep 2012, 10:47 am
Litigation: Landmark SCA ruling on dirty play in rugby
The SCA has ruled that rugby players will be forced to pay up for serious injuries caused to opponents, says a report in The Mercury. This after schoolboy Ryand Hattingh’s neck was broken during a rugby match between the first teams of Laborie High School and Stellenbosch High School in 2005. The SCA found that a flagrant contravention of rugby rules that resulted in a serious injury could attract legal liability and dismissed an appeal by Alex Roux against an order of the Western Cape High Court that he was legally liable for the neck injury of an opponent. The report says evidence in the High Court found Hattingh had complained about Roux’s scrumming manner before the conduct that resulted in the injuries. As the forwards were forming a scrum, Roux had shouted the word ‘jack-knife’ and then blocked the channel into which Hattingh’s head was meant to go. Because of this, Hattingh’s head was forced downwards and his neck was broken. The High Court accepted the evidence of Hattingh and rejected that of Roux. The report says the unanimous judgment of five judges found the High Court’s findings could not be faulted and the conclusion that Roux had acted deliberately was faultless. Roux’s conduct was wrongful, and the SCA held it was so.
Full report in The Mercury (subscription needed)
Judgment
See also a Beeld report
28 Sep 2012, 10:47 am
@rossoneri-8:
They are understandably dead quiet for now although Drew Mitchell has tweeted that he is ‘finding it increasingly difficult to bite his tongue” without eloborating whether he was even discussing Cooper’s comments and whether he supported or disagreed with it.
28 Sep 2012, 10:50 am
@rangerman-11:
He does not agree with the defence orientated gameplan of deans and wants the players to have more say into team tactics etc.
28 Sep 2012, 10:50 am
@Robzim-13: But I am certain that it must be causing upset in the team.
28 Sep 2012, 10:50 am
Big deal. He was awesome in one Super rugby season and that’s pretty much it on positive note.
His off-field record stinks and form loss surpass even Morne’s. So shame, Blacks and Boks have lost their prime weapon.
28 Sep 2012, 10:51 am
@rangerman-11: He’s a prima donna. Deans’ gameplan has too much kikcing for Quades taste and he is being asked to do more than just play the way he wants to hence the tantrum. Cooper might be insanley talented but he cannot be good for team moral.
28 Sep 2012, 10:52 am
@Robzim-14: so he wants to be like john, fdp and matfield to pdv…ok i get it
28 Sep 2012, 10:53 am
@rossoneri-12: This was a good decision for rugby. Players, esspecially youngsters have to learn and know that as physical as the game can get, safety must be a priority, or there will be consequences.
28 Sep 2012, 10:53 am
@Robzim-14: he is a player, not the coach. so he can f uk off imo.
@Skeppie-17: i dont buy the player power bs.
because the coach ultimately takes the fall.
28 Sep 2012, 10:54 am
@rossoneri-15:
I have no doubt of that- i guess we will hear some stories quite soon especially if they lose against the boks and even argies over the next 2 weeks.
28 Sep 2012, 10:54 am
@Transformation-18: Any bitterness there Transie?
28 Sep 2012, 10:55 am
@Transformation-18:
Yip, seems like it
@rangerman-20:
See #18 above.
28 Sep 2012, 10:55 am
@Transformation-18:
28 Sep 2012, 10:56 am
@Transformation-18: @Robzim-23: so you are saying 2009 was due to the players and not pdv?
or did he cave after his great results?
what a flawed line of reasoning guys.
28 Sep 2012, 10:57 am
@rossoneri-24: It was the ANC’s fault.
28 Sep 2012, 10:58 am
@Skeppie-22: hi skeppie, how are you?
28 Sep 2012, 11:01 am
@rangerman-25:
I believe that the players had a huge input on the gameplan (s) of Peter de Villiers right through his tenure as coach.
28 Sep 2012, 11:01 am
@Transformation-27: Too good Transie too good and you?
28 Sep 2012, 11:04 am
@rangerman-25:
Why?
What happened in 2009?
28 Sep 2012, 11:06 am
@Hurricane-30: we won the 3n and beat the BIL.
where were you?
28 Sep 2012, 11:07 am
@rangerman-25: hey! we never came up with the theory that the players were coaching the team, gavin rich was the main man behind the rumours in ’09.
it also didn’t help that matfield said “when peter first came in, he really wanted to coach and he had lots of ideasbut i think he quickly realised that we has set out minds on how we actually wanted to play.
he didn’t step back, but he sat down and said ‘ok let’s do this together’. every week on a monday morning we would sit with all the assistant coaches, peter and about three or four senior players, later on it was a bit more, during the world cup”
28 Sep 2012, 11:08 am
@rangerman-11:
yes.
I agre he is prima donna. Does he want to caoch the side????
this is not Quade job. He is a disgrace and no way other players will back him over the coach. No respect.
28 Sep 2012, 11:08 am
@rangerman-31:
I know. I thought you like saying it so i gave you a window of opportuinity
My Ranger took it.
28 Sep 2012, 11:10 am
@Hurricane-34: Hurricane you are too kind…can we move onto 1995 and 2007 next? At this point we need some pampering!
28 Sep 2012, 11:10 am
@Skeppie-29: am great too…
28 Sep 2012, 11:10 am
@Robzim-28:
That is True. Peter was political pawn. Smit, Du Preez and Matfield were real coaches behind the scenes
28 Sep 2012, 11:11 am
@Hurricane-34: hehehe, thought maybe you had emerged from a cave.
@Transformation-32: fair enough bud.
gotta go guys, cheers.
28 Sep 2012, 11:11 am
@Skeppie-35:
haha, dont get too carried away………..ohhh ok, what happened in 2007?
28 Sep 2012, 11:11 am
Love to see Cooper off to league. Those guys are much better at the kisses and cuddles his ego needs than those rough old union players
28 Sep 2012, 12:29 pm
Coooper is a complete boofhead.
28 Sep 2012, 13:07 pm
no truth to the rumour that quade the fade simply wants to get out of his contract so he can follow sunni bin dollar to japan?
28 Sep 2012, 13:11 pm
@gunther-42:
very true. This whole thing was agent driven as both SBW and Quade have same agent.
This is what Aussie ad kiwi media are saying
28 Sep 2012, 13:47 pm
I guess this means will be seeing Quade playing for the roosters along side SBW next year…funny enough thats not a bad idea they have the right skill set for the game
28 Sep 2012, 15:02 pm
@londonshark-3:
are you referring to Carlos “can’t seem to really step up when it comes to test rugby” Spencer ?
Spencer vs Springboks
Played 7
Won 6
84pts
28 Sep 2012, 20:31 pm
@boktillzero-44: Not really in Coopers case. He can’t hide from tackling in League, and he will also have to take some big hits once the opposition work him out as a *****.
28 Sep 2012, 22:48 pm
What a prized wanker this guy is. Thank goodness he moved to Aussie. I hope he stays there as we have no room for him back in New Zealand.
29 Sep 2012, 01:17 am
Rugby League is like Soccer
The players and supporters are Knackers.
So there is no surprise with a former rugby league player either looking for attention in the media and having a fanny wobble.
Bunch of skirts
neither am i a fan of SBW, another rugby league poof
29 Sep 2012, 02:09 am
@Greenies-48: Not sure that I agree with the ‘poof’ comment. Some pretty hard boys playing league. I suspect that some of them look at union as a ‘soft option’.
Seem to have more of a ‘prima donna’ culture in league though and doesn’t do them any favours. Cooper would fit right in apart from when he has to make or take a real tackle. Not a huge fan of the SBW circus either, but the man can surely play. If he stuck in one place/code for a while his true value would probably live up to the hype.
29 Sep 2012, 12:52 pm
Quade, Quade, Quade.
If you had half a brain …………………………………………..well you haven’t,
so WTF.
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