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Former Wallabies coach Michael Cheika makes surprise cross-code switch
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Ex-Wallabies boss Michael Cheika has made a cross-code coaching switch to join the Sydney Roosters on a short-term coaching advisor's role.
The Daily Telegraph reports that the 52-year-old is assisting the reigning back-to-back NRL champion club's head coach Trent Robinson by working with the squad's coaches and the players' attacking skills.
"He is helping push myself and the assistant coaches to improve and challenging our ideas and helping push us again in 2020," Robinson said.
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The move to rugby league comes after Cheika ended his five-year tenure with the Wallabies following a dismal quarter-final exit at the hands of eventual runners-up England at last year's World Cup in Japan.
He has been linked to a return to France with Top 14 club Montpellier, eight years after he left Stade Francais to join the Waratahs in Super Rugby, but will stay in Sydney for the time being as he works with the Roosters one day a week until at least the end of pre-season.
"I've loved it. I was really honoured that they thought I could contribute. I want to make sure the stuff I'm doing is contributing the way Trent wants me to," Cheika told the Telegraph.
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