Sitaleki Timani

[qwerty51]

It wasn't long ago he was suspected as having a season-ending broken hand too

 

[wobbly]

He plays a different game to any of our other locks. Much more brutal and imposing. It's been a long time since we had a lock like that.

Choice, diversity, depth - that's what a 5th team and a longer season has delivered. There's never been a season like it in the professional era for so many emerging talents to appear out of nowhere. I still cringe when someone is proposed as a starting Wallaby after a couple of good Super Rugby games, but who'd thought we'd be hailing these names at the start of the season:

Timani
Pyle
Saffy
Phipps
Dellitt
Vaea
Lance
Shipperly
Gill
Tapuai
Stannard

And the return of Samo, Beau Robinson, Gerrard, Mortlock, Shepherd, Vickerman...

Love it, great Super season for the future of Australian Rugby.

 

[MATEMAATONGA]

There was an article where he stated he would be heading to Japan and playing for Tonga during the world cup if he wasnt selected for the wallabies. In saying that Sitaleki and his older brother Sione have told the Tongan coach they would be joining Tongas 50 man World Cup training squad.

 

[S120]

The Tahs have been using him pretty much as an 8 for the last month or so. Rarely used in the lineouts and used in the backline to take the ball up. Don't regularly see him in tight in the same vein as a more traditional lock.