{"id":139739,"date":"2021-10-06T06:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=139739"},"modified":"2021-10-06T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T07:01:11","slug":"the-3000-1-shot-setting-rugby-world-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=139739","title":{"rendered":"The '3000-1' shot setting rugby world on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Rugby has picked six Wallabies in its Rugby Championship team of the tournament, including breakout try-scoring sensation Andrew Kellaway.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old winger was not on Dave Rennie's radar at the start of the season but forced his way into the frame with a strong finish to his stint with the Rebels.<\/p>\n

Now he finds himself on the verge of making Wallabies history with a big chance to break Israel Folau's record for most tries in a rookie Test season.<\/p>\n

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Folau scored 10 in his maiden season while Kellaway sits on eight with games against Japan, Scotland, England and Wales to come.<\/p>\n

Kellaway (seven) also lapped the field as the leading try-scorer in the Rugby Championship with David Havili, Will Jordan, Sevu Reece and Malcolm Marx next best with three.<\/p>\n

"Morgs (Morgan Turinui) and I joked about this in commentary the other night," commentator Sean Maloney said on Stan Sport's Rugby Heaven<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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"If you had him in the frame to be the top try-scorer in the Rugby Championship, we had him at 1000-1, 3000-1."<\/p>\n

Added Turinui: "I'm not a gambling man but it's write your own ticket… an unbelievable story, really, about a mature player coming back a complete player and making every post a winner when given an opportunity."<\/p>\n

Former Australian schoolboys star Kellaway was a Wallabies tourist on the 2016 Spring Tour but had to wait five years to make his Test debut.<\/p>\n

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He left the Waratahs in 2018 and spent time abroad with Northampton Saints, Counties Manukau and NEC Green Rockets to round out his rugby education before returning home.<\/p>\n

"Why wasn't he in the plans, is probably one of the things you want to know," Australia's rugby players association boss Justin Harrison said on Rugby Heaven<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"How did he slip through? I mean you can't capture everyone but one of the things we do know is that players leave, probably earlier than they should to go overseas.<\/p>\n

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"Just because you're overseas doesn't mean you're out of the plans now, we've also seen that, so keeping tabs on those players is probably paramount now."<\/p>\n

Indeed of the six Wallabies named in the team of the tournament, Quade Cooper and Samu Kerevi are players who have improved their games on foreign soil.<\/p>\n

Former Test back Turinui said that should be real food for thought for Rugby Australia.<\/p>\n

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"The key players of this TRC have probably made everyone rethink the high performance plan and pathway of Australian rugby," Turinui said on Rugby Heaven<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"Cooper, (James) O'Connor back in and around it, Kerevi back in, (Sean) McMahon, Greg Holmes and Andrew Kellaway."<\/p>\n

The Wallabies Spring Tour squad is set to be named later this week.<\/p>\n

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