Analysis: Super Rugby AU showed us the future, for better or worse | geerob
The opening round of Super Rugby AU was the perfect determinant of whether you were a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty fan.
Although Bell endured a hard night at the office under the controversial scrum officiating of Nic Berry, it's official: the kids are all right.The generation that made history with the 2018 Australian Schools and 2019 Junior Wallabies sides are coming through Super Rugby en masse now and it is not hyperbole to say their arrival is as significant as the arrivals 15 years ago of Will Genia, David Pocock, Quade Cooper, Kurtley Beale and James O'Connor on the Schools and U20s scene.
But if you're sipping from a half-empty glass, they are all still kids, and that means it could be a lean couple of years for the Wallabies, unless new coach Dave Rennie is allowed to augment his first Test squad with a select number of overseas-based players. It is a feat of some significance that the Waratahs were able to hold back hyped U20s back rower Will Harris for as long as they did, while Harrison, Bell and Junior Wallabies teammate Mark Nawaqanitawase were thrown in from the start of the earlier 2020 season. Harris made a quiet enough debut against the Reds on Friday night but it was respectable, which is all that should be required of this generation at this stage of their careers.
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