Barbarians 36-40 Australia | Autumn international warm-up match report

Barbarians 36-40 AustraliaNew roads have for Australia been paved with more green than gold since they last reached the World Cup final 11 years ago and just as their latest new head coach, Michael Cheika, had started to sit comfortably, he watched his charges unravel against a club side that had started to feel the effects of a hard week.In the context of the next 11 months Australia face England here in the group stage of the World Cup on 3 October an 11-try romp was not overloaded with significance. Cheika rested most of his frontline players ahead of the four-Test programme that begins a…