Timana Tahu new Wallabies' code for 'traumatise'

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Timana Tahu new Wallabies' code for 'traumatise'
Bret Harris | July 08, 2008

LATE last year Robbie Deans' teenage son, Sam, offered his father some recruitment advice for the Crusaders side that he coached.

If there was one rugby league player who could play rugby union, it was Parramatta Eels star Timana Tahu.

"I said 'well, that's an irony because he has just phoned me'," Deans said yesterday after Tahu's inclusion in the Wallabies' 30-man Tri-Nations squad.

Tahu, of Maori and Aboriginal descent, had decided to cross codes and approached Deans about playing for the Crusaders.

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Bret Harris has started gushing over Timtam

This part makes sense.

Tahu is unlikely to displace Barnes from the starting inside centre position for the opening Tri-Nations Test against South Africa in Perth on Saturday week.

But if Barnes is ruled out because of the shoulder injury he sustained in the Wallabies' record 40-10 win against France in Brisbane last Saturday, Stirling Mortlock and Ryan Cross would probably form the centre combination, which would create an opening for Tahu on the bench.