Tom Decent is a journalist with Fairfax Media.
Wallabies five-eighth Bernard Foley says Australia cannot afford to get carried away after a breakthrough win against New Zealand and must show the same resilience on their four-week spring tour of Japan and the UK.
Three years ago, Jack Maddocks was playing for the third XV at Scots College but on Saturday evening his meteoric rugby rise continued after being informed by Michael Cheika he had been picked to travel on the spring tour with the Wallabies.
Brumbies second-rower Blake Enever was on a coffee run before an NRC match on Sunday when he missed a phone call from an unknown number.
Quade Cooper may have played his last match for the Wallabies, with Michael Cheika once again leaving him out of a 32-man spring tour squad on Sunday that saw a string of players ruled out because of injury.
Blake Enever, Matt Philip, Jack Maddocks and Liam Wright are the bolters for this year's Wallabies spring tour.
Ben McCalman hasn't played a Test in 14 months and has barely been on the park this year but emerged as a candidate to go on the Wallabies Spring Tour after coach Michael Cheika confirmed back-rower Jack Dempsey would be ruled out for the rest of the year.
Alan Jones has produced one of the all-time post-match sprays after two of his players were shown controversial late yellow cards in the Barbarians' 31-28 loss to the Wallabies.
Alan Jones nearly had bragging rights over Michael Cheika but a rusty Wallabies outfit narrowly accounted for his spirited Barbarians team 31-28 in Sydney on Saturday.
Quade Cooper has revealed he was always "envious" playing Barbarians teams and developed an admiration for the respected British rugby club when he was nine years old.
The mining billionaire hopes to obtain both World Rugby and Rugby Australia's tick of approval in the next three weeks.
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