That'll do me. It has taken me a while to get in the right frame of mind to write this comment piece.

When the word got out this morning that Quade Cooper was going to be the Test No 10 to play the All Blacks at their Eden Park cauldron, I vaguely recall slipping off the office chair, a loud thump, and suddenly seeing all these pretty little cuckoo birds fluttering above my head, cheep cheep cheeping away.

Then a deep sleep. Coma or was it Karma they call it.

Smelling salts were called for. Really strong ones. That didn't word. I just started to froth more. Hot towels were brought in. Bamboo was placed under the fingernails in the hope of getting some reaction. Then they started to get really worried that I was now laughing out of context. Some observers said that was nothing new, but the regularity had intensified.

It was only when they hovered a piping hot meat pie right above my nostrils that I was suddenly back on track, wanting to shadow box with anyone within arms length, and ready to hit the laptop.

Well what can you say, write or believe?

This is one of the most craziest Wallabies team selections of recent times. The Wallabies suddenly find a midfield combination in Nic White/Matt Toomua /Matt Giteau which can destabilise the All Blacks- as shown in Sydney- and they instead turn their back on that and opt for a No 10, who in the past has been completely spooked by the New Zealand Test team.

You just have to think of the last 2011 World Cup when all of New Zealand targeted Cooper, and he went to jelly. Admittedly, Cooper was not protected well by the Wallabies team management during that tournament, but he did not handle the pressure well.

And you certainly remember the reaction when the New Zealand media recently targeted him, prompting a Twitter tirade from Argentina. So that puts him in the right frame of mind to be the Wallabies master tactician to end a 29-year Eden Park hoodoo? I think not.

The Wallabies say that Cooper has to handle such pressure. And rightly so. This is the test to discover whether he is up to the World Cup and everything else.

The fact is that he can play. He can be a game turner. He is first and foremost though a confidence player, but when the biorhythms are not working, he can make the most inexplicable of mistakes.

What an enormous challenge for him. But is he in the right frame of mind, and will he remain in the right frame of mind when all of New Zealand, the country where he was born, again take delight in turning him into public enemy No 1?

As Cooper is about to be hounded, that is open to serious question. And this is coming from someone who over the years has been one of his biggest defenders. I like Quade Cooper, but I worry for Quade Cooper.

The bewildering selections continue with Wycliff Palu at No 8- a person who has repeatedly struggled to have any impact in Bledisloe Cup Tests. New Zealand has the hex on Palu. This is another last chance saloon choice, and defies logic especially after the David Pocock/Michael Hooper/Scott Fardy backrow worked so well in Sydney, effectively nullifying the All Blacks.

If the Wallabies win the Bledisloe Cup, these wacky selection will be labeled a Michael Cheika masterstroke. If they lose, the ramifications could be enormous.

I'm suddenly feeling very weary.

Oh no I'm hearing that cheep cheep che……

Quade Cooper will combine with NIc White in the halves this weekend © Getty Images

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