Wallabies reject's savage sledge for ex-teammates

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A escaped tone connected the tract and a escaped tone disconnected it, failed sparky Mack Hansen has had a hilarious ace astatine the Aussie mates he'll fastener horns with successful Dublin connected Sunday (AEDT).

"They can't sledge for s---," the Ireland winger said of the Wallabies' Brumbies contingent.

"Whitey (Nic White) volition beryllium chirpy similar ever but the remainder of them aren't precise witty oregon smart. All the Brumbies lads, I'm fantastic mates with.

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"I grew up with Lachy Lonergan and Nick Frost was my roommate backmost home.

"That's evidently going to beryllium a beauteous comic 1 but past there's different guys similar Tom Wright, each the forwards, each the 'usos' successful the team.

"It's astir going to warfare connected the tract and past afterwards conscionable being capable to person a laughter astir it and beryllium capable to bask a quiescent brew oregon two."

Hansen really is the 1 that got away.

The 24-year-old played for Australia astatine under-20 level but struggled to nail down a regular starting spot for the Brumbies.

And truthful the Canberra merchandise linked with Connacht past twelvemonth with the cognition that Ireland could travel calling acknowledgment to his Cork-born mother.

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After a drawstring of dynamic performances, Hansen has been shortlisted for World Rugby's breakthrough subordinate of the twelvemonth for 2022.

But his archetypal Test against his location federation volition surely deed differently.

"I'm conscionable going to instrumentality it similar immoderate different game," Hansen claimed.

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"If I bargain into the communicative excessively overmuch and effort and marque myself bigger than the game, that's erstwhile things are conscionable going to spell wrong. Since I made my determination determination person been nary thoughts of backtracking astatine all. I'm precise blessed wherever I am."

World No.1 Ireland participate the lucifer arsenic beardown favourites but Hansen said the daze decision to Italy would marque the Wallabies a unsafe beast.

"Having mislaid is decidedly going to person blown fume up their arse. They volition beryllium coming retired with each guns blazing. We cognize that and we're acceptable for that," helium said.

"It's going to beryllium a cracking game."

Hansen was besides asked astir his other 'career' earlier hitting the rugby large time.

"I was a unspeakable electrician! It wasn't for me," Hansen said.

"No, no, I've nary idea. I'm fortunate capable not to deliberation astir it, to beryllium honest."

Wallabies forwards manager Dan McKellar is Hansen's erstwhile Brumbies mentor.

He said the Brumbies and Rugby Australia made a beardown effort to support Hansen successful the state earlier helium switched allegiances to Ireland.

McKellar said RA had continued to talk with Hansen aft helium arrived astatine Connacht and instantly performed well.

"It was bittersweet to spot him go. He near Canberra and the Brumbies due to the fact that he's a Canberra lad and he's lived determination each his beingness and helium wanted a caller beingness experience," McKellar said.

"I deliberation if you asked Mack if helium was going to beryllium playing for Ireland 6-12 months into that experience, helium astir apt would person laughed. But he's earned that right.

"He's successful a bully place. Happy for him, but hopefully we support him quiescent connected Saturday (local time). He's ever been that subordinate that has the imaginable to footwear on.

"You're blessed for the individual, you're disappointed that he's wearing greenish this play and he's not wearing gold. That was the vocation way that helium took, others the same. It happens. It's beauteous commonplace now, isn't it, successful planetary rugby?"

When Hansen near for Ireland past year, the Brumbies had beardown extracurricular backmost stocks including Tom Banks, Tom Wright, Andy Muirhead, Cam Clark and Jesse Mogg.

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But McKellar did admit immoderate astonishment that different Australian franchises had not secured his services.

"The archetypal clip I saw Mack helium was a 17-year-old retired of school," McKellar said.

"You could archer helium was a earthy footballer. That's what helium provides the Irish team. He's a winger but helium gets successful astatine archetypal receiver and helium distributes. He often volition propulsion a walk that creates a enactment interruption oregon is simply a effort assist. He'll people them arsenic well."

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