There’s only one place to start.<\/p>\n
Noah Caluori, Saracens’ helium-heeled wing, announced himself with a sensational five tries on his first Prem start and finished the weekend with a call-up to train with the England senior side.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old made 233 metres with ball in hand in a 65-14 thrashing of Sale, but just as exciting to England coach Steve Borthwick will have been the vertical distance travelled.<\/p>\n
Caluori stands 6ft 4in tall, but soars to unprecedented altitudes in pursuit of a high ball.<\/p>\n
In addition to crossing five times himself, he earned a penalty try when – attempting to claim an Owen Farrell cross-kick ball over his head – he was taken out by opposite number Tom O’Flaherty way, way below him.<\/p>\n
Caluori is also a slippery runner – beating 10 defenders – and showed a canny footballing brain, setting up a second-half try for Ben Earl with a well-judged grubber back inside.<\/p>\n
Although Borthwick has handed them out less frequently than predecessor Eddie Jones, he is far from the first starlet to be invited into England training.<\/p>\n
Marcus Smith, Jacob Umaga, Josh Hodge, Zach Mercer and Ted Hill have received similar call-ups.<\/p>\n
Australia and Leicester fly-half James O’Connor, who scored a hat-trick on his first Wallabies start as an 18-year-old, can also attest that not all teenagers kick on to fully realise their hype.<\/p>\n
But Caluori’s unique ability seems easy to bring into the game and especially difficult to counter.<\/p>\n
Despite Saracens coach Mark McCall’s Sir Alex Ferguson-style attempts to temper expectations, we are surely going to see plenty more of him.<\/p>\n
Not just on the pitch either. For a rebranded club in a rebranded league, he could be a new Gen Z figurehead, with a burgeoning showreel and busy TikTok output.<\/p>\n
It may be just as well that his Swiss father Andreas works in sports marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s only one place to start. Noah Caluori, Saracens’ helium-heeled wing, announced himself with a sensational five tries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-227396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}