The late-blooming winger knows there is a lot riding on being named in Australia’s squad to face Fiji with the British & Irish Lions on the horizon
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o, Harry Potter – the Australian rugby union winger – hasn’t read the books. And the 27-year-old is unlikely to get to them anytime soon, given his focus on securing a precious place in the Wallabies’ team for the coming tour of the British and Irish Lions.
“It’s a massive, once-in-every-12-years event,” he says in the days before the first Wallabies squad of the year is named on Thursday. “It’s going to be pretty monumental.”
The Western Force player has perhaps the best name in Australian sport. But as cute as his moniker may be to non-rugby-following millennials, Potter cares more about how he is viewed by a man of more advanced years: Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt.
