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At 19 years of age, having survived being thrown into the Super 14 without a backs coach in 2007 and in his first full year of Super 14 rugby, he steered a dysfunctional Waratahs team to the Final of the tournament.
To do this he had to overcome the Waratahs coaching and off-field management issues, a turnstile of half-backs and a very inexperienced backline (Burgess, Horne, Turner, Carter and Tahu).
Kurtley Beale has the greatest potential of any current provincial player in the world.
He has all the skills: footspeed, evasiveness, instinct, an excellent pass. He kicks goals and has inner toughness. His potential is leveraged by the fact that he plays fly half, the most influential position on the field.
He got a very rough deal not being selected for the current Wallabies tour. But this is nothing compared to what he has already overcome in his short life.
He has shown that he is made of sterner stuff. An Aboriginal boy at a private school is a tough gig, no matter how embracing the school and the students are.
To understand this, imagine moving to a Northern Territory Aboriginal settlement for six years at the age of twelve.
I hope that Deans has not missed this shining talent, particularly when we watch the All Black’s fielding two play makers in Donald and Carter this weekend.
Consider the Waratahs combination of Burgess and Beale, feeding Giteau, Cross/Horne/O’Connor, Turner, Mitchell and Hynes.
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