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Nathan Sharpe (72)
Given the all encompassing powers of an AR at this level how is a meeting with one OK, whoever calls it?The meeting never happened. Cheika is lying or badly misinformed.
"Although he did meet with Jaco Peyper in Wellington, who'd refereed the previous Saturday's test in Sydney and was a touch judge at Westpac Stadium.
"It's quite sad that that's come out, because it's not true. Unless you say 'g'day Romain' in the morning [constitutes a clandestine meeting], he stayed here at this hotel," Hansen said on Sunday.
"But I did have a meeting with Jaco Peyper this week, at his request. Crono [All Blacks scrum coach Mike Cron] and I both got asked by him to review some of the stuff that he had seen in our game."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/...-refuted-australias-claims-of-secret-meetings
I agree that if Cheika is wrong about a meeting with Poite he's creating a serious credibility issue for himself, which will be compounded when (if) we don't cite franks.
Maybe Peyper bugged the meeting so he would know which Aussies to ping: that's the only way he'd get close to having any idea.