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NAMED: Cheika gives rookie a chance in Wallaby side to face the All Blacks

Wallaby coach Michael Cheika

Michael Cheika has made five changes to his Wallaby side that will make on the All Blacks in Sydney on Saturday night.

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Included in the side is uncapped winger Curtis Rona, who is in for the injured Dane Haylett-Petty.  Henry Speight as also been recalled in place of Seta Naivalu, who has also failed to recover from injury.

Rona’s elevation is tinged with irony, given that the team he impressed so much with this year no longer exits. The Western Force have been axed from Super Rugby, meaning that Rona is officially unaligned to anyone. There had been talk that he may return to the NRL, where he played for the North Queensland Cowboys and Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs. However, this call up will most likely see him stay committed to the 15-man code.

The Wallaby tight five will have a typically tough time against their All Black counterparts, given that Stephen Moore has almost twice as many caps as the rest of them put together.

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Tom 1 hour ago
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Well that is scientifically correct but I've never thought of him as being especially short. He seems to be about the same height as Furlong, fairly average prop size. I think his massive quads give the illusion that he's shorter.


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Even though squatting the same weight requires more force for someone with longer levers, his max squat may be significantly higher than some other props. There is a vid of him repping out 230kg for a set of 8 and he's reputed to have a 1RM of 350kg so by anyone's standards, regardless of how short you are, that's very strong.

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