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Wallabies’ Director of Rugby Scott Johnson has backed the hard-line stance taken by Rugby Australia overFolau, a fundamentalist Christian, faces having his Wallabies contract torn up, afterJohnson, who helped former Wales skipper Gareth Thomas come to terms with his sexuality more than a decade ago, said Wallabies fullback Folau would have the opportunity to put his case forward at a Code of Conduct hearing with RA on May 4.

Johnson formed a tight bond with Thomas at Wales, where he was an assistant coach for a number of years and a caretaker in the head role for a few tests in 2006. Thomas came out in 2009, two years after playing the last of his 103 tests, but confided in Johnson that he was gay after a 29-29 draw with Australia in Cardiff in 2006.

“I was coaching the opposition and I got called into the change room because he only wanted to talk to me,” Johnson recalled on Wednesday. “I spent the next 24 hours off-site in the opposition’s hotel talking to his team mates because he couldn’t, nor his coaching staff and his management.

 

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