Michael Cheika and Steve Hansen a study in contrasts and similarities
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The Wallabies can’t hope to match the All Blacks on field, but the mind games between their head coaches continue to be a fascinating Bledisloe Cup sub-plotInternational rugby coaches, it’s widely acknowledged by experts, are crazy people. Ridiculously competitive, ornery, cussed. They manipulate men, read The Art of War and sit in glass booths and rage against the Gods. Well, Michael Cheika does. He’s good television in the coach’s box. There’s a camera pointed permanently at him. Like Craig Bellamy at Melbourne Storm or Ricky Stuart on the sideline, Cheika is good theatre. There’s no filter,…





