Wallabies now more menacing: Kurtley Beale saga welds squad together | Eddie Butler

As Australia prepare for their autumn internationals, they are far from wounded by the scandal over offensive texts. Indeed, the new coach, Michael Cheika, has inherited a tighter unitIt is funny how much can be forgotten in the turn of the World Cup cycle. It should be remembered more knowingly that the very phrase Rugby World Cup seems to be the hair-trigger for some alarming behaviour among athletes who scoff in their normal working lives at old-school antics of excess.The start of the tournament is 10 months away, but tickets have been sold and everything, but everything, has relevance. An…