'He's that good': Bold prediction for Wallabies tyro

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Stephen Hoiles believes Angus Bell could go 1 of Australia's top ever props aft the young loosehead emerged arsenic the brightest airy from an different dismal Rugby Championship campaign.

The lad of erstwhile Wallabies hooker Mark Bell, the Waratahs prima missed the full Super Rugby Pacific play aft re-injuring his ft successful the play opener against the Brumbies.

Bell past sat retired the opening Test against South Africa successful Pretoria earlier impressing disconnected the seat against Argentina successful Sydney.

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Angus Bell of the Wallabies runs the shot during a Bledisloe Cup match. (Getty)

That dynamic show earned the 22-year-old a commencement successful Saturday's Bledisloe Cup clash with New Zealand and Bell was Australia's champion successful the crushing 38-7 defeat.

Bell was substituted for co-captain James Slipper successful the 2nd half but past returned to decorativeness the crippled aft damaging injuries to tightheads Allan Alaalatoa and Taniela Tupou.

"That was truly exciting, seeing however good helium played and to travel backmost connected and bash it again," erstwhile Wallabies backrower Hoiles said connected Stan Sport's Between Two Posts.

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"He could spell down arsenic 1 of our very, precise champion ever. And you cognize what, helium wouldn't perceive to this but helium wouldn't attraction if helium did due to the fact that he's not that benignant of bloke.

"He conscionable gets connected with it. Allan Alaalatoa, that's scary losing him. Taniela, I deliberation we'll get him back, but I'm shattered for the Wallabies present with that tighthead situation.

"But having Bell back, that's huge. He's that bully helium could decorativeness the crippled arsenic a backrower. Like his shot moving - he's astir apt our astir damaging shot runner."

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Wallabies manager Eddie Jones said allowing Bell to proceed to commencement portion switching Slipper to tighthead was an enactment up of Saturday's instrumentality lucifer against the All Blacks successful Dunedin.

Former Wallabies fastener Justin Harrison agreed Bell was Australia's standout astatine the MCG.

"There's a antheral that's changed his capableness to scrummage the mode they privation it," Harrison said.

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"He's a immense man, right? So each done property group, he's ne'er had to truly enactment technically precise hard. Then he's travel done and been recovered retired by bigger, stronger people. His halfway spot present is he's a big, gangly antheral - retrieve Carl Hayman erstwhile helium came through? They said 'this feline is excessively gangly to play prop.' He's worked hard connected it."

Harrison besides liked Bell's bosom connected sleeve interrogation arsenic helium spoke with Stan Sport's Drew Mitchell connected Saturday.

"He was shattered. Now that is what we're talking astir erstwhile you enactment connected a Wallabies jersey."

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