Four Wallabies named in Barbarians line-up

Australia will supply four players for the Barbarians side that will face the All Blacks at Twickenham on Saturday.
Winger Drew Mitchell, fly-half Matt Giteau, back-row George Smith and Wallabies captain Rocky Elsom have all been named in the starting line-up, with scrum-half Will Genia and hooker Stephen Moore named on the replacements’ bench.
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Stash said | December 3rd 2009 @ 11:54am | Report comment

Stephen Donald!!… well he obviously deserves his spot after his sterling performances in the black jersey.

Sarcasm aside… probably wise choice from Henry to leave McCaw in….the ABs are going to need some serious leadership against this classy Baba side… Holy Cow that’s a good side!!

This should be a quality game… can we actually get to see it on TV or the net?

Dan said | December 3rd 2009 @ 6:07pm | Report comment

Rococoko and Habana on the wings? Giteau and du Preez as the halves? Damn… that’s not a bad side!

Ora said | December 3rd 2009 @ 7:03pm | Report comment

Great BaaBaa side it will be interesting to see how the fill ins go for the ABs,
This is more like NZ A against a world 15 who look very good on paper

Ian Noble said | December 3rd 2009 @ 10:53pm | Report comment

Outside the International window, England players are not released by their clubs.

Some very exciting combinations and should be very interesting to see how they perform. One of the major bye products of a Baa-Baas squad is that many of these players have never played together or even talked to each other and yet in the squad environment, they room together, eat together, drink together etc for over a week. Judging from past comments they get more enjoyment out of mixing as squad when previously they would have knocked nine bells out of each other and many consider it an honour to be invited.

jus de couchon said | December 4th 2009 @ 2:02am | Report comment

Cant wait. I will be there. Slightly worried to hear Nick Mallet , the Ba Bas coach , say they have a week to prepare Isnt that against the Ba Bas ethic?