Wallabies legend John Eales believes the nation’s captaincy will prove the making of Fraser McReight, and transform him from one of the world’s leading flankers to an all-time great of Australian rugby. Despite not having the ‘c’ next to his name at clubland for the Queensland Reds, McReight was named to replace Super Rugby Pacific teammate Harry Wilson in the side’s Test defeat to South Africa after the latter succumbed to a knee injury. While the Wallabies were unable to back up their Ellis Park heroics, suffering a 30-22 defeat amid a host of injury concerns, McReight’s typically relentless nature was on show – topping the clash in the tackle count (17 for no misses) as he sought to galvanise his under siege troops. Eales, speaking from Ballymore at the book launch of his former coach John Connolly’s biography, said history’s best teams each possessed a number of captaincy options.