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THE combative Michael Cheika has not yet given his rip-the-Reds-apart speech in 13 months as NSW coach. It's coming tomorrow night.
Cheika is a wonderful addition to rugby's coaching landscape in Australia because he gets how important the fierce Queensland-NSW rivalry is.
He had two shots at Queensland last year as a first-year coach and on neither occasion did he start tearing up his Reds voodoo doll in front of his players.
Round 2 with a new team was too early and Round 20 was too late because the clash was ridiculously downgraded by being scheduled a week after the British and Irish Lions megatour.
A boiling speech evoking past NSW deeds against Queensland would have fizzed because his new hot-and-very cold Waratahs outfit was still forming an identity.
"You can only make those type of speeches once or twice a year," Cheika said.
"Before you evoke all the history you have to clearly identify with the past and it's now that we are building that as a running team in the tradition of NSW.''
Cheika has skipped generations to attach the Tahs identity with the vibrant teams of Nick Farr-Jones, Simon Poidevin, Steve Tuynman and co in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Randwick product Cheika loved Poidevin's passion for the annual stoushes with Tony Shaw in the old days.
"Rugby fans need a strong rivalry between all our provinces but especially between NSW and Queensland,'' Cheika said.
"It should be an event not just rugby followers connect to.''
Cheika coached Dublin side Leinster to trophy success in Ireland over Limerick's Munster in a rivalry which is as fierce as Queensland-NSW.
"When I was at Leinster, Munster was the dominant partner and they schooled us for a while,'' Cheika said.
"The Reds have dominated us. It's pretty clear they are ahead of us. It's up to us to master them. If we can, we know we'll be at the top of the tree somewhere.''
The Reds should be wary of Israel Folau but more concerned that the Waratahs' attitude has been transformed by Cheika. The coach and his men are mad for a scalp.
Just listen to the dressingroom walls quaking at ANZ Stadium in Sydney before kick-off on Saturday night.
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