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Wallabies are gonna have a stupid amount of quility 10's by the time of the 2011 WC...
Beale
Barnes
Cooper
SNK
Lealiifano
Giteau
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Personally I wouldn't call Gits a quality ten - he is either an inside or a scrum half. Lealiifano is absolutely awesome, and he is on a rookie contract at the Brumbies, yes that's right a rookie contract. I suppose he is in a similar situation to Beale in that he is very young and time will tell whether he will last, but he hasn't had enough hype, but he is good. Also, other potential flyhalves are Fairbanks, Huxley and I reckon you could slot Faingaa in there.
But not only flyhalves, wingers and centres as well. Two words: Francis Fainifo. This guy is the next big thing once we say farewell to Lote, Gerrard and Rathbone, he is a serious flyer and can score from just about anywhere. I've seen him play a few club games in Canberra along with the APC and he is excellent. Also, the other Faingaa, Saia will surely make it to the starting hooking position with experience.
Jesus, and all these players I've mentioned are Brumbies.... we're going to be good next year!!
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Now your showing your Brumby bias Jacko.... Fairbanks, Huxley and A.Faingaa will never play outhalf for the Wallabies. IMO Faingaa is the only one of those blokes with the potential to one day cement his place in the test squad... but it wont be at 10.
What are the odds of Anthony getting a game this year?... you'd think with Huxley,Fairbanks and AAC all able to play 12 there would be no reason for Fisher to risk him this early unless the Brumbies wrap up a finals berth with a few weeks to spare.
Franky is the rookie that looks most likely to make an impact this year, he tore it up in the APC last year and looks ready to mix it with the big boys, he just needs Gerrard or Rathbone to get injured or AAC to f@#k up big time and he'll no doubt get his chance.
The winger im expecting to shine this year is Caleb Brown, i'm thinking he could have the type of breakthrough year that Gerrard had in 2004 and i'd be surprised come tri-nations time if he's not part of the Wallabies squad. He's only 19 and he's already built like a brick shithouse and faster than most of the current Wallaby wingers... and like Franky, he tore it up in the post season with 12 tries.
Tuqiri can **** off back to little league after the World Cup, we've got more than enough wingers for 2011...
Ioane
C.Brown
Stapleton
Mitchell
Fainifo
Rathbone
Gerrard
Shepherd
Turner
Siale
Inglis? :bleh!:
We just need one of these guys to devolope into a quality 13 or for Johansson to pull his finger out this year and show us what he's really capable of ..... after Mortlock goes we look pretty light in that area.... Johansson,Turinui,A.Faingaa,Pelesasa(maybe Cross) none of them have really done much in the last year.
