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Article: The best is yet to come; Rod Macqueen will be rugby's most successful coach yet, believes Richard Bath, if he leads the Wallabies to a series victory over the Lions
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- June 3, 2001
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When the Lions clamber aboard the plane that will bring them back
to Blighty in little over six weeks time, an auspicious era in
Australian rugby will draw to a quiet but significant end. When
Wallaby coach Rod Macqueen hangs up his tracksuit for the last time
to retire to life as a businessman, it will mark the end of two
decades in which he has arguably had a greater impact upon the game
in his native land than anybody else alive.
All that remains for Macqueen now is to oversee Australia's first
series win over the Lions; it is why he postponed his retirement
after engineering the World Cup winning campaign two years ago. Even
in a career as illustrious as Macqueen's, to lead a side in ...