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Hair fails to hide Australia's ambition

Source: guardian.co.uk Sport

Nov 06, 2009

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• Only four England players remain from last year's fixture
• Australia growing facial hair to promote cancer awareness

Modern rugby teams are supposed to know each other inside out. Not this week. At the Wallaby hotel in west London yesterday, there was polite bafflement when Digby Ioane, one half of Australia's reshuffled midfield partnership, was asked what he thought of Danny Hipkiss and Shane Geraghty. "I really don't know what they're like," was Ioane's endearingly honest answer. England, with just four starting survivors from last year's corresponding fixture, are a largely closed book to their visitors, if not themselves.

The reverse is also true to some degree, which is why tomorrow's game is so intriguing. News that the Wallabies have signed up to the "Movember" campaign and are growing facial hair to raise awareness of prostate cancer has hardly helped. Such players as Ioane, Quade Cooper and Ben Alexander could wander up and down Kensington High Street for days, with or without bushy Merv Hughes-style foliage on their upper lips, and still fail to at

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