Fletcher had big boots to fill and did the job well. He was around for a long time in Sydney club football, had a taste of representative football with New South Wales and then got a consistent opportunity with Queensland. He has been one of the unsung heroes this year, playing his first Super12 tournament and then knuckling down and playing seven successive Tests against some of the best players in the world. Yet, the same Dyson moved from Northern Suburbs club to Randwick when it appeared younger props in Ben Darwin and Al Baxter would displace him before transferring across the border to the Queensland Reds last year. He can assess technical situations scrummaging-wise and make adjustments.
Good players do that.
He demonstrated that ability in the last couple of years in Super12. It's a great opportunity for him to reproduce it at Test level. A member of the 1989 and 1993 touring Australian teams, McKenzie acknowledged the difficulty of winning in France with the nation's rugby culture so dependent on scrummaging. Traditionally, France are always strong in the scrum. Our game plan depends on us doing well in the set pieces.