The veteran prop will become the most capped Wallabies player of all time on Saturday and George Gregan couldn’t be happier.
As the years ticked by and edged him closer, James Slipper has never felt comfortable with the chat about him replacing George Gregan as the most capped Wallabies player in history.
“I get asked quite a bit, and have been for a few years, about potentially taking over from ‘Greegs’. And it has always been … I don’t have another word for it but … awkward,” Slipper said. George Gregan and James Slipper standing at Accor Stadium. The pair are current joint holders for the record for most Wallabies caps, with 139.It was a mostly forgettable day for the Wallabies but there are hopes Slipper can keep up a trend of good results in milestone games - the Wallabies beat the All Blacks in his 100th Test - on Saturday afternoon and create a better memory for the kid who’ll come along and pass Slipper’s record one day.
Gregan claimed the Australian record when he passed David Campese’s 101 Tests, and after passing Phillipe Sella and Jason Leonard in 2005, he held the world record for most Test caps for almost a decade until Brian O’Driscoll passed him in 2014. “It’s a tough position, there’s no hiding,” Gregan said. “He deserves every single cap, no doubt. There are no easy Test caps but even less so when you play prop.”Reuters
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