Pat McCabe played much of his professional career for the Brumbies and represented Australia 24 times.

Western Force legend, Sam Wykes made 87 appearances for the Club and later the Sunwolves & Waratahs

From World Rugby's Hall of Fame: A natural leader, former Australia captain John Eales is one of a select group of players to have won two Rugby World Cups, in 1991, aged just 21, and as captain in 1999. A towering second-row, Eales was not only an outstanding lineout expert and great ball player, but also a formidable kicker of the ball. With 173 points to his name, he remains the highest point scoring forward in the history of the game. Among his most memorable kicks was a late match-winner from the touchline to win the Bledisloe Cup in 2000. Eales, who made over a century of appearances for Queensland, made his test debut against Wales in his hometown of Brisbane in 1991 and went on to earn 86 caps over the next decade. At the time of his retirement, Eales was the most-capped second-row in history. Awarded the Order of Australia in 1999, Eales’ stock in Australian rugby is such that the annual medal for the Wallabies’ best player bears his name.

A Day In Union | Join the movement Wallaby number 698, Richard Tombs played 5 tests for his country in the 1990s as a hard running centre, despite having Tim Horan & Jason Little, possibly Australia’s greatest ever centre pairing, cemented in the Wallabies squad ahead of him at the time. In 2018 Tombs suffered an incomplete C4 central spinal cord injury as a result of a freak soccer accident that left him with severely restricted movement. Richard shortly thereafter founded Guns Out Spinal Foundation (https://gunsoutorg.wordpress.com/) to support research to find a cure to muscle spasticity.

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A Day In Union | Join the movement President of Rugby India, representative player for 11 years and star of film and television, Rahul Bose shares his rugby story.