Samu Kerevi is the latest sacrifice to Australian rugby’s cult of the wunderkind

Australian rugby coaching has demonstrated a bias going back beyond the Michael Cheika era, of worshipping the ‘cult of the wunderkind’. In this cult, young players who are lavishly gifted in attack and succeed at Super Rugby level are promoted into the cauldron of the Test arena too early, then subsequently flounder. Quade Cooper and […] Article link: Samu Kerevi is the latest sacrifice to Australian rugby’s cult of the wunderkind. Written by The Crowd, on The Roar - Your Sports Opinion.