Folau controversy still haunts the Wallabies

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The first job for incoming Wallabies coach Dave Rennie will be putting to bed once and for all the divisive sacking of Israel Folau, according to senior team sources | geerob

The first job for incoming Wallabies coach Dave Rennie will be putting to bed once and for all the divisive sacking of Israel Folau, senior team sources have told theThe matter raised its head again on Wednesday with the publication of claims by former senior Wallabies Sekope Kepu and Samu Kerevi that they felt under pressure from Rugby Australia and the Waratahs not to speak out against Folau's sacking last year.

Fox Sports pundit Greg Martin echoed this sentiment, telling the network: "Clearly it’s been simmering away and you [players] can’t say anything until you leave the system." Neither Kepu nor Kerevi are playing in Australia any more either, but any future Wallabies squad is still likely to be made up of 50 per cent Australians of Pacific Islander descent, the vast majority of whom identify as Christians to greater and lesser extents.

He had his Wallabies squad address the issue in small groups in camp in Brisbane last year – the same camp Kepu, the most senior Pacific Islander in the squad, said in the court documents he was too upset to attend.

 

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geerob I will settle for winning a few games. If the 'senior sources' need a cuddle, tell them to harden up or just pick someone else No one in that side has the runs on the board to be irreplaceable as we got rid of the only one that had runs on the board

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