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Fortunately, the prop was back on his feet but it's likely he'll miss several weeks with that shoulder problem.
Joe Powell, or as the Wallabies Twitter prefers to call him, Joel, didn’t want to tell his mates he was picked in the Wallabies squad.
Why?
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Not out of some sense of dignity, or false humility. Nup, he just thought it was a joke.
“Originally I thought it was a joke… and I told one of the boys and asked them to have a look at it because I thought it was a bit of a joke,” Powell told ABC.
He also revealed it was an email that notified him. Hell, maybe we’re next in line?
The thing that really tipped the balance of the joke, though, was the faux pas on Twitter that followed from the Wallabies’ official Twitter account.
Powell said he “didn’t want to tell anyone because I didn’t want to seem like an idiot”.
Don’t worry Joe… the powers that be have taken care of that for you.
Powell has played seven games for the Brumbies in his Super Rugby career to date, clocking up just over an hour of game time.
He was signed last year, having been plying his trade as a carpenter, to a short-term deal with the Brumbies and later the Vikings in the NRC.
Now he’s in the Wallabies squad.
You have to give credit to the 22-year-old, it’s a meteoric rise through the ranks.
We raise our glasses to you, Joe Powell!
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