Rugby-Wallabies predict rugby union stardom for Suaalii

FILE PHOTO: Wallabies' Angus Bell, Max Jorgensen, Fraser McReight, Dylan Pietsch, Joseph Suaalii and Allan Alaalatoa pose in the Australian jersey for the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia at Sydney 's Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, Australia October 29, 2024. REUTERS/Nick Mulvenney/File Photo

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia prop Angus Bell believes Joseph Suaalii will become one of the best rugby union players in the world and dismissed talk that handing the rugby league convert a test debut on the end-of-season tour would cheapen the Wallabies jersey.

Bell was Suaalii's roommate in the pre-tour training camp and said he had been impressed with the 21-year-old's professionalism as well as his humility in the short time they had been together.