Now Kepu:
Sekope Kepu to join James Horwill, Adam Ashley-Cooper in heading overseas.
CORNERSTONE prop Sekope Kepu is poised to join a growing list of Wallaby stars who play overseas after the 2015 World Cup, after Adam Ashley-Cooper and James Horwill handed in departure notices yesterday.
Kepu is being strongly pursued by French club Bordeaux, the same outfit who on Thursday announced they’d beaten French rivals to Ashley-Cooper’s signature.
The 104-Test centre had made no secret of the fact next year would be his last in Australia and will join up with the mid-Table Top 14 outfit after the World Cup next year.
Horwill will do likewise with London club Harlequins, after the former Test captain announced on Thursday he’d signed a three-year deal to play the Stoop.
Sources in Europe believe a deal is all-but done between Kepu and Bordeaux but it is understood the 28-year-old is currently weighing up his future.
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Class TH? Kepu is a top class TH. What the Wallabies have been lacking for the past few season especially in the EOYT has been a scrummaging hooker in Tatafu Polota-Nau.
I will throw it out there now and say that he is the most important player that the Wallabies and Waratahs will need to be healthy in 2015 in order to succeed.
Sure the lineout will be a little shakey at times but Taaf has a reputation around world rugby of being one of the more powerful scrummaging hookers.
I'm not sure if Kepu is top class, is the best Aussie TH, and he's good but the game has 80 minutes, you need at least 2 players by position IMO