Wallabies tackle boot camp as going gets tough for World Cup

AUSTRALIA lock Nathan Sharpe and winger Mark Gerrard believe the hardships of the five-day army-style boot camp the Wallabies are currently undergoing will galvanise the team ahead of the World Cup.

The players and staff, with the exception of head coach John Connolly, assembled in Brisbane on Sunday morning before being taken to North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane’s east coast for day one of the regime.

Australia’s World Cup-winning cricketers underwent a similar camp last year, and the intentions of organisers BLP were made clear early on when the unwilling recruits were deposited overboard 400 metres off-shore.