Legend's 'great' call on next Wallabies captain

Wallabies fable Tim Horan declared Nic White would marque a "great" Test skipper arsenic manager Eddie Jones prepares to sanction his archetypal authoritative squad for the Rugby Championship.

Jones named a grooming squad successful April but is yet to uncover whether incumbent skipper James Slipper volition proceed successful the relation for the clash with South Africa connected July 9 (AEST).

Jones is expected to sanction his Wallabies squad connected June 25, the time aft the Super Rugby Pacific last - but won't needfully uncover his skipper oregon captains then.

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Tim Horan speaks with Wallabies manager Eddie Jones. (Getty)

Jones told Wide World of Sports successful April that helium was considering naming aggregate captains.

"Oh, it's hard, I reckon. I reckon Eddie volition spell a skipper and astir apt 2 vice captains," Horan, a erstwhile Wallabies selector nether Jones, said connected Stan Sport's Rugby Heaven.

"I think, realistically, bash you marque it James Slipper due to the fact that he's going to beryllium picked successful the beforehand enactment to start? Or bash you prime idiosyncratic similar a Nic White?

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Wallabies manager Eddie Jones talks with Nic White. (Getty)

"I mean, successful my opinion, I deliberation Nic White would beryllium a large captain. And past you person a mates of vice captains to enactment that."

White volition again skipper the Brumbies connected Saturday successful the 2nd Super Rugby Pacific semi-final against the Chiefs successful Hamilton.

The fiesty halfback is starring the squad successful the lack of injured skipper Allan Alaalatoa.

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Slipper took connected the Wallabies captaincy during past year's Rugby Championship erstwhile long-time skipper Michael Hooper withdrew to prioritise his intelligence health.

Hooper returned to the Test squad for the circuit of the bluish hemisphere but Slipper remained captain.

"The archetypal enactment radical looked to beryllium (Andrew) Kellaway, (Jed) Holloway, Slipper, Alaalatoa, White and Hooper successful that archetypal camp, and evidently that squad is evolving arsenic well," Morgan Turinui said connected Rugby Heaven.

Wallabies manager Eddie Jones talks with the enactment group. (Getty)

"The Quade Coopers and Bernard Foley are coming with acquisition and determination are young leaders coming done arsenic well.

"You know, James Slipper, would you deliberation would beryllium the evident one? Because there's automatic enactment determination arsenic well."

Horan added that Hooper whitethorn nary longer beryllium an automatic enactment astatine No.7 if Jones opted for the bigger framework of Pete Samu astatine openside flanker.

"If that's the mode helium goes with the large backmost row, you can't person Michael Hooper arsenic captain," Horan said.

Former Wallabies fastener Justin Harrison agreed the relation would beryllium shared and argued that Hooper's acquisition could not beryllium discounted.

"You're not going to person the aforesaid skipper each Test lucifer for a commencement arsenic well," Harrison said connected Rugby Heaven.

Michael Hooper and James Slipper of the Wallabies sing the nationalist anthem. (Getty)

"I don't deliberation you're going to person a skipper that's ne'er captained earlier arsenic the skipper of the Wallabies. So past you're starting to sharpen the pencil there.

"You're starting to deliberation astir Slipper, Hooper. Why not? Why not Michael Hooper?"

Jones dropped a large bombshell successful 2016 by naming New Zealand-born firebrand Dylan Hartley arsenic skipper to regenerate Chris Robshaw.

England went connected to triumph the expansive slam and back-to-back Six Nations titles.

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