Australia coach Michael Cheika has backed the country's 'Giteau Law�...
MELBOURNE - Australia coach Michael Cheika has backed the country’s ‘Giteau Law’ on overseas-based players’ eligibility for Wallabies selection, declaring there is no need to follow South Africa’s lead and scrap the 60-test cap requirement.
South Africa recently cancelled a rule that overseas-based players need 30 caps to be picked for the Springboks, saying they would offer better contracts for home-based players to try to prevent a talent drain to richer clubs in Europe and Japan. That allowed him to select utility back Matt Giteau for the 2015 World Cup in England and other overseas-based Wallabies.
“We have a lot of different mechanisms to encourage players to come back... The key is to have the best quality players playing their rugby in Australia, or in Super Rugby, so our young players, our youth and our club players, they all have that to aspire to.Cheika will soon be reporting to a new boss, with Director of Rugby Scott Johnson arriving in a few weeks after being appointed by Rugby Australia at the end of a dreadful 2018 when the Wallabies won only four of 13 tests.
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