THE plan to prepare Australia’s women's seven team for the chaos of Rio was going well until the team thought their Rio campaign was screwed.
As one of an array of curveballs he’d thrown at his team, coach Tim Walsh had recruited the team’s best player Charlotte Caslick to fake an injury in the warm-up of their final game of the friendly series against Japan in Sydney.
The problem was Caslick took the task with so much enthusiasm she “deserved an Academy award”, Walsh said last week.
