{"id":286945,"date":"2023-04-18T01:45:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=286945"},"modified":"2023-04-18T04:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T04:58:31","slug":"the-suaalii-influence-already-felt-in-wallabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=286945","title":{"rendered":"The Suaalii influence already felt in Wallabies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Suaalii<\/a> won't switch codes until October next year but the NRL star is \ufeffalready having an impact on the Wallabies.<\/p>\n

In his first Wallabies camp under Eddie Jones<\/a>, Reds young gun \ufeffJosh Flook credited Suaalii for improving his defence in particular as he pushes for a Test debut in 2023.<\/p>\n

Flook, 21, played both with and against Suaalii as a schoolboy and the experience sharpened him for Super Rugby Pacific.<\/p>\n

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\"Josh<\/p>\n

\ufeffOne turning point was in facing Sydney Roosters superstar Joseph Suaalii.<\/p>\n

"He was probably the first player when I went into some really big detail, on things like what foot he liked to step off and stuff like that," Flook told Nine's Michael Atkinson.<\/p>\n

"He was still a big boy back then, playing against him wasn't so fun but having him on your side was definitely a lot better."<\/p>\n

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\"Josh<\/p>\n

Flook, a centre\/winger, played with Suaalii in a crack Australian under-18s team on 2021 which went unbeaten on a tour to New Zealand.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"That under-18s team we had a pretty stacked side, so we were able to learn off each other and that was our first real professional setup," Flook said.<\/p>\n

"These days players can do so much, so you have got to have it in the back of your mind, any little tip you can pick up from their game."<\/p>\n

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Flook, often smaller than his midfield opponents, has been a \ufeffstandout defensively for Queensland and has also scored six tries in the opening eight rounds.<\/p>\n

Like the player he's often compared to – \ufeffAll Blacks legend Conrad Smith – Flook has a happy knack of popping up at the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n

"It was very cool to be able to put my name next to his, in a similar player," Flook told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"I've definitely tried to devote, develop my game around him because he's one of the best in the world to do it."<\/p>\n

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Joseph Suaalii won't switch codes until October next year but the NRL star is \ufeffalready having an impact on the Wallabies. In his first Wallabies […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286950,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286945\/revisions\/286950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}