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This “play what’s in front of you” ethos pushed by Anscombe has already been scooped up by a pair of Staller’s young teammates: flanker Ollie Nott, 21, and lock Reegan O’Gorman, 20. Both made their debuts last weekend, and both will start Saturday.

“Everyone’s a leader,” O’Gorman said, noting that was the first thing he realized upon joining the squad earlier this month. “You’ve got to step up.”

O’Gorman, a Vancouver native who has been playing rugby in New Zealand, said the other thing Anscombe has pressed on him is that it’s not just that he’s here because of his size, but because the coach wants to see “what sets me apart from guys my size.”

His time playing in New Zealand has been worthwhile. He played school rugby for Winston Churchill, club rugby for the Vancouver Rowing Club and was involved in plenty of age grade rep teams for B.C. and Canada, but Down Under he found out “everyone’s that much smarter and quicker, no matter the level.”

Nott said he’s already seen “the importance of knowing your roles. How to transition from being just an individual to working as part of the overall team.”

Coming up, Nott admitted, you can get used to being the biggest, the strongest, the fastest guy on the team. But at international level, he’s already realized how everyone is the best. He points back to his time at Shawnigan Lake School, where he landed at age 15 when his family moved to the area from the United Kingdom. His dad, an engineer, had taken up a job at B.C. Hydro.

“I was pretty lucky to have Tim Murdy as a coach,” he said. “I learned about being disciplined on the field, about not doing anything half-heartedly.”

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