Australia's Quade Cooper is helped from the field after injuring his knee during the Rugby World Cup
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Wallaby great Tim Horan believes Quade Cooper should use his injury-enforced lay-off to reflect on his disappointing World Cup performance and try to understand how to play Test rugby. The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
"Horan, who was part of Australia's 1991 and 1999 World Cup-winning sides, said Cooper needed to learn that Super Rugby and Test matches demand two very different styles of play.
"For Quade Cooper, I think he needs to understand how to play Test match rugby," Horan said at a Melbourne Rebels function on Thursday.
"It's totally different to Super Rugby. In Super Rugby you can make a couple of mistakes and get away with it. In Test matches you can't and in World Cups when you get to knock-out stages, sometimes you have to play boring rugby to win the match."
"Horan hopes that Cooper, who has been linked to a switch to rugby league, wouldn't be lost to the game and would get another chance for World Cup success."
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