Wallabies' annus horribilis not without glimmer of hope

Positives of half-back pairings, Tevita Kuridrani and Michael Cheika’s arrival can outweigh the negatives of the Beale saga and a weak scrumBlessedly, the Wallabies’ international season is over. The unkind will reflect on the European tour losses to France, Ireland and England and promptly declare the team a rabble with little chance of surviving next year’s Rugby World Cup so-called group of death (Pool A) in which one of either England, Wales, or Australia won’t progress to the quarter-finals (assuming Fiji doesn’t surprise of course). That sense of pessimism is understandable; Australian r…