The most influential prop in Australian rugby is set to play his first match in eight months on Saturday.
With his last touch of the ball in the King’s College First XV, Che Clark scored a 60m runaway try in a 56-5 hammering of Mount Albert Grammar School in 2021.
During the second test of the 2000 Bledisloe Cup series, the All Blacks pulled an elaborate wrap-play followed by a double-bluff switch to baffle the Wallabies and open them up.
The All Blacks have been dominant in the Bledisloe Cup in recent years, but there was a time when the Wallabies were the undisputed champions of the trans-Tasman rivalry - including the great 2000 series.
Brisbane's biggest festival of rugby is just around the corner, with the two-day Global Rugby tens tournament kicking off on February 9 at Suncorp Stadium.