Discarding Quade Cooper was no shock after 'toxic' comment IT was never going to happen. We all knew it was never going to happen. It didn't happen. So let's not treat Quade Cooper's omission from the Wallabies squad to play the British and Irish Lions as some sort of shock. Coach Robbie Deans yesterday cautioned his critics not to attack him for not supporting or showing faith in the Reds playmaker, noting he had selected him 38 times in the past - which just happens to be Cooper's entire tally of Test caps.