I never realised how much of an indication school boys is. Having a look through the archives, there's been a minimum of 5 Super Rugby players per year which is quite incredible. So surely we'll be seeing a few of these lads around in green and gold within 5 or so years.
I'm in awe of the 2006 team:
Kurtley Beale, Quade Cooper, Ben Daley, Will Genia, James Hanson, Patrick McCabe,Ben Lucas, Patrick McCutcheon, Ben McCalman, David Pocock, Lachlan Turner
Those are some good names aren't they?
But the're not all from 2006 (McCutcheon, the 2005 captain, had left school, and so had others).
I saw Genia play for Oz A Schools when they beat NZ Schools at Victoria Barracks (a cracking game) in 2005 but I don't think he ever played for the main team, because he was an Oz A reserve.
Lucas was the captain of that A team. He and Leali'ifano were the two Aussie flyhalves from 2004 but when Beale and Cooper appeared at the nationals in 2005, the older boys were relegated to the A's.
Future Wallabies who played for Aussie Schools in 2005 and 2006, in tests in Australia and/or went on tour in the UK etc in 2005 and/or Fiji/NZ 2006.
2005: Beale, Betham, Cooper, Daley, Hanson, McNamara, Pocock, Leali'fano, Turner, McCabe.
2006: Beale, Betham, Cooper, McNamara, Palmer, Ryan, Simmons, Charles, Horne, Davies, Tapuai.
All these fellows ended up playing in Schools "tests", sometime between 2004 and 2007.
But you're right about 2006 being a bumper year—eleven of the 26 tourists to Fiji and NZ ended up playing for the Wallabies.
But they lost to NZ Schools in Auckland 18-8
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