WITH confirmation on Friday that Will Genia would be latest Wallaby to take up a lucrative overseas contract after the World Cup, the debate regarding selection of overseas players flared up once again.

Genia joins a growing list of Wallabies who have announced this season will be their last in Australia, including James Horwill, Sekope Kepu, Nic White, Wycliff Palu and Adam Ashley-Cooper. Nick Cummins will also be heading back to Japan after his loan with the Western Force expires.

But should players be forced to choose between earning the highest amount their skills command in the market or playing for their country. Eddie Jones certainly thinks they shouldn’t.

“The ARU must formalise a retention plan which starts with clearly identifying the players they must keep for the 2019 World Cup,” Jones wrote in Saturday’s Courier-Mail.

“There are number of strategies to use — sabbaticals, flexibility in selecting players from overseas clubs and use of feeder clubs.”

Jones emphasised timeliness in acting on the mass exodus from Australian rugby.

“A good plan for retention implemented today is better than an excellent plan implemented tomorrow.

“Number one is being proactive, not sitting on hands in some trendy cafe in rugby boss Bill Pulver’s Sydney suburb of Mosman.”

A number of names are being touted as potential movers overseas in the near future, not least some of the game’s biggest stars including Israel Folau, Bernard Foley, Kurtley Beale and David Pocock.

But while the futures of those players and many more are still undecided, many have already taken the plunge and announced their intentions to move on after the World Cup, following in the footsteps of those who did so in 2014 or earlier.

We have compiled a combined XV of Wallabies playing overseas and those who will be making the move after the World Cup.

Our imposing side boasts a total of 736 Test caps between them and wouldn’t be without a hope taking on the current Wallabies side.

OVERSEAS WALLABIES XV (Test caps in brackets): Salesi Ma’afu (14), John Ulugia, Sekope Kepu (52), James Horwill (58), Kane Douglas (14), Ben Mowen (15), George Smith (111), Wycliff Palu (54), Will Genia (58), Matt Giteau (92), Nick Cummins (15), Berrick Barnes (51), Adam Ashley-Cooper (104), Digby Ioane (35), Drew Mitchell (63)