ALL four Australian Super 14 coaches will be asked to become Wallabies squad selectors as part of new national coach Robbie Deans's plan to choose the best Test team possible.
The policy of inclusion aims to provide the often-divided Australian provinces with a fair and influential say in the make-up of Wallabies train-on squads before they are cut to Test teams.
It will also ensure Deans has a selection process in place - and a means for an open channel of communication with his selectors - while fulfilling his final commitments as a New Zealand Rugby Union employee in charge of the Canterbury Crusaders.
Deans is duty-bound by his Kiwi agreement not to work with the Wallabies in NZRU time. But he is aware that, with three weeks between the Super 14 final at the end of May and Australia's first domestic Test against Ireland, there is little time to assemble and prepare a side, especially if no selection process is implemented during the Super 14.
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