SYDNEY (AP) Quade Cooper has been omitted from Australia’s 38-man training squad announced Wednesday for the Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup, possibly ending the test career of the flashy but often unpredictable playmaker.
The move leaves Bernard Foley as the only specialist flyhalf in the extended squad picked by Wallabies coach Michael Cheika for a series of training camps starting north of Sydney next week. Kurtley Beale, a utility back who recently returned from England, was recalled to the Wallabies squad for the first time since the 2015 World Cup and is only other potential No. 10 in the initial group.