{"id":14909,"date":"2012-09-24T16:52:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-1-rugby-cooper-tirade-no-distraction-says-wallaby-team-mate\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T16:52:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:52:32","slug":"update-1-rugby-cooper-tirade-no-distraction-says-wallaby-team-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-rugby-cooper-tirade-no-distraction-says-wallaby-team-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Rugby-Cooper tirade no distraction, says Wallaby team mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Recasts after news conference, changes slug)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ashley-Cooper talks of &#8220;great buzz&#8221; in Wallaby camp<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Team mate Cooper says the environment is &#8220;toxic&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Quade Cooper&#8217;s belief there is &#8220;a toxic environment&#8221; in the camp will not distract Australia ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Rugby Championship test against South Africa, said utility back Adam Ashley-Cooper.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf Cooper, who is missing from the squad because of knee trouble, made his outspoken comments at the weekend but his team mate responded on Monday by saying there was a convivial mood in the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This won&#8217;t be a distraction for us,&#8221; Ashley-Cooper told a news conference in Johannesburg. &#8220;There&#8217;s a great buzz in the squad and we&#8217;re excited to be here.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had two good wins in this competition and we feel we&#8217;re building as a group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cooper had launched a Twitter outburst against Robbie Deans, venting his frustration at the tactics of the coach of the Wallabies and also at the Australian Rugby Union.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Recasts after news conference, changes slug) * Ashley-Cooper talks of &#8220;great buzz&#8221; in Wallaby camp * Team mate Cooper says the environment is &#8220;toxic&#8221; By Ken Borland JOHANNESBURG, Sept 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Quade Cooper&#8217;s belief there is &#8220;a toxic environment&#8221; in the camp will not distract Australia ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Rugby Championship test against South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}