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<blockquote data-quote="Darwin" data-source="post: 478061" data-attributes="member: 24910">I assume Michael Hooper was Australia&#039;s 7 that game -he&#039;s another good young player, who will be competing with Colby Faingaa for the Brumbies 7 Jersey this season.The Baby Blacks always seem to be so far ahead of other teams at the breakdown - I can only assume that it has to do with the coaching (rather than them being superior athletes...).&nbsp; The speed of recycling the ball to backs can be phenomenal at times, meaning the backs have so much time.That is usually the case, but there have been a unusually high number of the Under 20&#039;s that have secured themselves Super Rugby contracts this season (9 in total, compared to 2-3 usually).&nbsp; Some of these wont get much (if any) Super Rugby this season though, but the 10&#039;s (Sopoaga, Anscombe, Barrett) should get plenty of game-time as we have seen a lot of top 10&#039;s leave since last season (Delany, Brett, McAlister, Berquist, Donald).&nbsp; I can only assume the reason we don&#039;t play Australia more at Under 20 level is a financial issue, as you suggest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darwin, post: 478061, member: 24910"] I assume Michael Hooper was Australia's 7 that game -he's another good young player, who will be competing with Colby Faingaa for the Brumbies 7 Jersey this season. The Baby Blacks always seem to be so far ahead of other teams at the breakdown - I can only assume that it has to do with the coaching (rather than them being superior athletes...). The speed of recycling the ball to backs can be phenomenal at times, meaning the backs have so much time. That is usually the case, but there have been a unusually high number of the Under 20's that have secured themselves Super Rugby contracts this season (9 in total, compared to 2-3 usually). Some of these wont get much (if any) Super Rugby this season though, but the 10's (Sopoaga, Anscombe, Barrett) should get plenty of game-time as we have seen a lot of top 10's leave since last season (Delany, Brett, McAlister, Berquist, Donald). I can only assume the reason we don't play Australia more at Under 20 level is a financial issue, as you suggest. [/QUOTE]

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