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Rob Horne is the best defender that I’ve seen in living memory. Given a few more kilos in the years to come, he looks like he might start cutting people in half as well.
When the Australian Schoolboys beat New Zealand for the first time in a while, Horne was an axe. I haven’t seen one attacker this year or last get past him.
He just has ample speed to let them get on the outside and put them into some Tiquiri hurt or pull them down himself.
Sure, in attack he still has a bit of maturing to do. But given that he has the second fastest 40m sprint time in Waratah history, surely this kid is gonna be our next Giteau in the centres at the top level.
The lines he runs are superb and clearly it takes a big set of kahoonas to keep accepting borderline hospital passes from Beale night after night. Yet, I’ve never seen him hesitate.
Deans made him go on the U21 Australian team instead of picking him for the Wallabies, where he picked up a groin injury that looks to be behind him.
Now that he’s fit, do you think he can edge out James O’Connor?
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