With Peel also injured for the start of the Six Nations, Cooper started against England last week.

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That group of scrum-halves includes Gareth Cooper, who started Wales' opening loss of the championship away to England and the win over Scotland but now finds himself out of the match-day squad.

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Cooper was born in Bridgend and started his rugby career at Pencoed, which has also produced Welsh stars Scott Gibbs and Gareth Thomas.

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The visitors started strongly and grabbed the opening try after full-back Adam Ashley-Cooper barged through a tackle from a rusty McCaw.

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In the late nineteen-nineties, William Cooper, a wealthy bank executive and conservative activist, became chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party, and started to demand more ideological purity.

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