Ben Alexander shoots to Wallabies bench

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It's time to push back: rookie prop
Wayne Smith | June 27, 2008

BEN ALEXANDER hasn't even made his Wallabies Test debut yet, although it could happen as early as tomorrow, but already he is thinking ahead to the day when he helps the Australian scrum take its revenge on the world.

Well, not so much the world as such. More England and New Zealand, the only two powers, in the opinion of the new Wallabies reserve front-rower, to have seriously embarrassed the Australian set piece.

"I think everyone's been extremely harsh," Alexander said yesterday, referring to the avalanche of criticism that has buried the Wallabies' scrum in recent years, most especially after it was destroyed by the All Blacks in Christchurch in July 2006 and earlier by England at Twickenham the previous November and again in the World Cup quarter-final last October.

"It's really only England and New Zealand that have given Australia any trouble, but, if you look back, they gave everyone trouble. Against everyone else in the world, the Australian scrum has always been fine."

It's time to push back: rookie prop | The Australian

[robyn <3]

OMG he will have a BLINDER and then its goodbye dunning/baxter, hello alexander! I CANT WAIT!! good luck mate, next time it will be pek!!

[force addict]

Alexander was good. was always near the ball and had a pretty debut i thought