ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black: With time running out on the clock after Caleb Clark combined with Sam Knock to win the match over the Reds 41-34 at Suncorp Stadium, the Blues won an all-time Super Rugby Pacific Classic.
2023 Junior Wallabies winger Tim Ryan stole the show with a black hat-trick opposite All Black Mark Telly as the Queenslanders looked a real chance to upset the Aucklanders.
Ryan, just 20, scored three tries in 15 minutes as the Reds began to play with confidence and belief that they could rock the Super Rugby Pacific.
ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black But the Blues didn’t throw in the towel. Kurt Eklund scored with full time just around the corner but it was Knock’s 82nd minute effort that silenced the otherwise lively Brisbane crowd.
The former junior Wallabies flyer turned up against an All Black
Just 24 hours after last year’s Rugby World Cup final, All Black Mark Telly was named Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year. Tele’a was quite bright, and joked with this writer about what the secret of his success was.
ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black Before the new Super Rugby Pacific season, it was hard to see Tele’a as a winger in 2024. The Blues speedster is deceptively strong, big and quick – and knows a thing or two about trying to score at this level. .
So, for 2023 junior Wallabies winger Tim Ryan, the idea of wearing the All Blacks sign was undoubtedly a daunting task. But to Ryan’s credit, he didn’t look out of place.
Ryan, who was named for his first start with the Reds after coming off the bench twice, delighted the fans with a well-worked chip-and-chase early in the first half. The winger found teammate Josh Fluke who ran all the way into the Blues’ 22.
ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black,There were signs of promise and potential, but young Ryan will have more opportunities to impress. Ryan was stopped twice within sight of the try line, including a stunning tackle attempt by a Blues defender who blocked an early try.
It was Wallabies Digby Ion’s Jerome Kaino’s shadow at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
But then, shortly after the Reds scored through Suliasi Vunivalu, Tim Ryan had his moment. Ryan linked up with Hunter Pesami before running around 50 meters for his first Super Rugby Pacific try.
At that stage of the contest, with 30 minutes left in the game, Ryan ran nearly 100 meters from nine carries, beat a defender, made a line break and passed the ball once.
Ryan wasn’t done there either.
The winger scored for the second time in the 61st minute with a stunning diving finish down the right. Commentator Morgan Turini explained that it was “the end the play deserved”.
Again, Ryan wasn’t there. ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black
Beating a couple of defenders including Mark Telly to create something special.
It was a top, top performance from a young outsider with a lot of potential.
“This baby is made for this level,” Sonny Bill Williams said on the air. and ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black
Sonny Bill Williams Hoskins is both right and wrong about Sotutu
Hoskins Sattu is on another level this season. After starting the 2024 campaign with five tries in just two matches, the Blues enforcer has carried some consistently impressive form to the season’s halfway point and beyond.
In an interview with RugbyPass earlier this season, Sattu spoke about how he was left out of the “All Blacks and All Blacks XV” last year. Now, there is daylight between Super Rugby Pacific Sotutu and other No.8s.
Reds v Blues: SBW was right and wrong; ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black
Two-time Rugby World Cup winning All Black Sonny Bill Williams said it best during Stan Sports’ half-time coverage: “The big game player is fine. He’s going to continue his form from 2024.
“I think the best No. 8 in the competition, probably the best No. 8 in the world right now… He’s got the ability to shine.
“ He is leading and his form in the first half showed that.”
Super Rugby Pacific’s best number 8, ‘SBW’ was definitely right. The Brumbies’ Charlie Cale has been impressive, as has the Hurricanes’ Brayden Iose, but Sotutu has been the best of the season so far.
ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black But SBW says, “Probably the best number 8 in the world right now.” Sattu wasn’t even included in the All Blacks XV squad last year, so calling the backrower the best in the world now is quite a leap.
That being said, he was superb again against the Reds.
However ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black, France’s Gregory Aldritt, Australia’s Rob Valletini and England’s Ben Earl have all caught the eye at Test level in the past and deserve to be considered a step up in the race to be “the best” at the moment.
Although ex-Junior Wallaby outplays All Black Sattur should start at No.8 for the All Blacks against England, it is only on that field that he can prove how good he really is.