Liam Wright hasn’t been seen on the Test stage since captaining Australia to victory over Wales in Sydney more than two years ago.

Any day now, on a launch pad 10,000 miles away from Bondi Beach in the rusty old Welsh rugby belt, he will take off on a new adventure, one which might just carry him home for the World Cup, not as a reconstructed Wallaby but as a bona fide member of the Red Dragon Brotherhood.
Eligibility rules allowing players to switch allegiance hinge on two criteria: through residence or ancestry and then not before three years have elapsed since the player last represented h...