In what amounts to his first senior game of rugby, Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii has been named as a shock starter for the Wallabies at Twickenham on Sunday.
Just forty-seven days after his last game in the NRL, code-switching recruit Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii will be thrown in the deep end by debuting at outside centre for the Wallabies against England on Sunday morning.
Starting Suaalii – who last played rugby as a teenager – in front of 80,000 people at Twickenham is a high-stakes gamble for Schmidt, but one the coach feels is worth taking given the fast-approaching Lions series next July. Suaalii’s debut will come just ten days after his contract with Rugby Australia officially began on November 1, but he has been training with the team for several weeks.
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