The All Blacks [were] just too good tonight - played great rugby and deserved the win. Although maybe O'Connor really was stuck for original thought. A tweet from the account of Wallaby twins Saia and Ant Faingaa was strikingly similar: "Worst feeling ever, absolutely gutted! All Blacks [were] just too good tonight. Thanks to everyone tonight for the great supports, you were awesome. Winger Drew Mitchell congratulated the All Blacks on their success, then checked back on Monday morning feeling somewhat the worse for wear.
At least the Wallabies still had rugby to tweet about. Back in the United Kingdom, the English players have been adjusting to life away from the high-pressure Rugby World Cup environment. Kiwi-born hooker Dylan Hartley wanted to make it clear he was a manly man, after he tweeted that he wore Ugg boots , the fleecy footwear made famous by Hollywood sex symbol Pamela Anderson.
Teammate Richard Wigglesworth would rather be playing the beautiful game on his console, according to his tweet to fellow back Ben Foden. I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. Jump to navigation. The incident happened in after the banged-up Wallabies had just defeated Argentina, thanks in no small part to a performance from an injured Cooper. I said, 'I don't know if I can play', they said, 'No you're sweet, you can get surgery next week in the week off, this is the last week and we need to win it'," Cooper said.
Not in those words but I basically said that. Cooper also talked about dealing with New Zealand fans who viewed him as a traitor, especially after he kneed All Black captain Richie McCaw in the head during a Bledisloe Cup game in I was basically I had no protection from the ARU, from the coaches, no one came out and protected me, except for my nanna.
To come back to that same level I was brought back too early. I was limping around on one leg, my leg was like a toothpick, there was no muscle on it so there's no control on it, and I had no confidence.
I didn't step off it for two years. Now I've got no issues with it but going back then I shouldn't have been playing. Same with the Richie, I was trying so hard to block it out. People say 'do you just block it out, the boos and things like that' and you say 'yeah I can't even hear it'. When you're on the field, that stuff is so clear, people don't realise it. If someone yells out something in the crowd, they might be in row and you hear it dead clear.
A lot of these guys were not playing or on the bench, or they were still playing and they wanted the say, but the majority of the guys were our age and we'd come through winning the comp. There was always disagreements, it was a nightmare, and that's when I said the environment was toxic, because I didn't like how it was making me feel because everyone was just arguing.
I said, 'I don't know if I can play', they said, 'No you're sweet, you can get surgery next week in the week off, this is the last game and we need to win it. I went into the game and I couldn't really kick becuase every time I kicked that bit of cartilage would get stuck in my joint.
At the end of the game, we won the game, and in the media announcement Robbie said to the media 'If we had a reserve to bring on all our boys got injured , I would have hooked Quade. But you're not able to do that when he's paying me. The easiest way for them was to force me out. What [Thorn's] achieved on the field, he's achieved everything you can. But the thing for me was I got a message - I'd just done three days of pre-season training camp, I'd been flogged for three days, I get a message on our day off at 9.
I was thinking 'maybe they're looking after me, I'm getting a bit old'. Came in there, I had a weird feeling, I rung Khoder and said 'I don't have a good feeling about this, something happened to one of the other boys two days ago and maybe I'm on the same chopping block'.
Off the back of that, he said, 'Whatever they say to you, go in there with your head high, say sweet, thank them and walk out'. I was me, Thorny and the GM general manager. The way they were speaking to me was really speaking down to me.
They said, 'Quade you're the fifth choice flyhalf'. I giggled because I thought 'what you're saying has no merit now, you're taking the piss'. I'd understand if you said you'd prefer this guy over me, but saying I'm the fifth - so there's two guys here better than me and two guys in club footy better than me - that's just trying to make me pissed off.
I said 'okay, I understand that's your opinion, I appreciate it, I got up, shook their hands and left'. There were more eyes on me because of what I was doing, I was sort of making a stand.
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