Former Wallaby BRETT PAPWORTH explains how Club Rugby teaches important life lessons and why it should always be an important part of the fabric of our nation LET’S BE HONEST. As sports fans in Australia, we are pretty lucky. On the world stage we win roughly 80 percent of the time. Pick any sport you like. We fight well out of our weight division in pretty much everything. Life is good. Well before there was money in sport, it was exactly the same. Australia being really good at sport is not a new phenomenon. Professionalism in Rugby and cricket has brought highly-paid full-time jobs, and much better conditions for the ever increasing number of junior development squads. Our cricketers and Rugby players practice in daylight hours, on training grounds that are perfect, and often complain if it is not. Someone has done all the work to provide everything a young man could possibly need to practice their elite talents. And everyone is happy, because as I mentioned, most of the time