With World Cup Tickets and Experiences going on sale<\/a>, rugby.com.au asked a quartet of Wallabies legends to predict who will be the breakout superstar by 2027.<\/p>\nMichael Hooper<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we’ve all talked about Max Jorgensen being amazing.\u00a0So I don’t know if he’s a breakout star anymore because he’s just doing it at the level now.\u00a0I’ve been so impressed with Max.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Suaalii is only going to come on in leaps and bounds.\u00a0I wouldn’t be surprised if someone like a Marky Mark [Nawaqanitawase] comes back from rugby league and wants to have a bit of a taste of a World Cup.\u00a0We know how good he was in Paris.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was great at the World Cup over there and he\u2019d get a chance to have a home World Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s plenty of forwards.\u00a0There’s plenty of guys I can talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Drew Mitchell<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ll say Teddy Wilson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if you look at it across the board, players that maybe we’ve already had. I don’t know if you can look too far out of guys that have already been blooded somewhat, right?\u00a0We’re a couple of years out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Teddy’s been on the fringes.\u00a0He was great in the Aussie 20s. I think he’s been fantastic in the opportunities he’s got for the Waratahs,\u00a0and especially against the Lions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think he was pretty impressive and I just think that Teddy Wilson will announce himself at the 2027 World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matt Giteau<\/p>\n
\u201cI really like Max Jorgensen.\u00a0I feel like every time he goes out there, he competes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just love a competitor.\u00a0I love he’s not the biggest winger, maybe not the fastest, maybe not the strongest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI reckon people underestimate how fast and strong he is,\u00a0but I just love the way he competes and plays for his country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam Ashley-Cooper<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s a lot of talent there\u00a0that have started putting their hand up [like] Joseph Suaalii, and Tate McDermott.\u00a0We’ve got a very good competitive back row.\u00a0Mate, look at Will Skelton’s performance. I don’t think he’s going anywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cAngus Bell, right?\u00a0One of the best ball carriers of the game.\u00a0There’s a really good spine there that we’re going to work around and it’s the provincial teams that are really showing some form too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think if we can start to really develop,\u00a0grow on the performances of our provincial teams\u00a0that go into the international test windows,\u00a0I think we’ll be in really good shape.\u00a0But I’m loving where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies are riding high after their final Test victory over the British & Irish Lions in Sydney.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2500],"class_list":["post-48932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932","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=48932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}