Wallabies coach Michael Cheika doesn't expect an apology from New Zealand Rugby for inferring that an Australian planted a listening device in an All Blacks team hotel.

The story broke on the morning of last year's first Bledisloe Cup match in Sydney, which the All Blacks went on to win 42-8.

On Tuesday, Sydney police charged Adrian Gard, who was employed as an All Blacks security consultant at the time of the incident.

Asked whether an apology would suffice, Cheika said: 'Nah, I'm not expecting anything, I don't think that's necessary. They made a call. They made their play and the police have shown that to be a different outcome to what maybe that inference was but I don't expect anything like an apology.

'I'd forgotten about it really and then it came up. I was surprised they [police] were still onto it but there was an investigation to be had and they did their business and came up with that solution and that outcome.

'I knew one thing was definite … the inference was that we were involved, I know that was ridiculous. I knew that would be in the final outcome.'

Gard will appear in Waverley Local Court on 21 March.

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