The code-hopper is the talk of the rugby union world after making light of expectations and the occasion at Twickenham on his Wallabies debut
icture this; you’re 21-years-old, you’ve been the most talked about player in rugby union for a month straight, you’re playing your first senior game, your first of any kind in this code since you were a teenager, and you’ve just stepped out to start for your country at Twickenham, the home of rugby.
“Even just hearing the crowd, I just wanted to soak it in before I started playing,” he said after a player-of-the-match performance that saw him glide across one sport’s grandest backdrops without even an inkling of the narrative that surrounded him. “It was always a dream of mine to get to play overseas. My old man has always said to me that there was a big world out there and rugby brings that. Just to play today was special.
“That was my first time representing Australia,” said the former NRL star who did in fact play union for his country as a schoolboy. “I’ve got six sisters and a brother and we all live in Australia, a safe country, so just to represent Australia for the first time in a professional arena was a very special moment for myself and my family.. “I don’t want to sit and wait. That’s the best way to learn, just get on the field and play.
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