Fullback Tom Banks and hooker Folau Faingaa backed up stellar Super Rugby campaigns with Wallabies debuts and will be on the spring tour. Loading Towering lock Rory Arnold looks to have finally forced his way back into the Australia's game-day squad, while Crusaders recruit Pete Samu has played seven Tests in Wallaby gold since debuting in June. Wallabies veteran prop James Slipper will arrive in Canberra from the Queensland Reds and will likely slot into a rotation system with Alaalatoa and Scott Sio. Star centre Tevita Kuridrani, scrumhalf Joe Powell and prodigious back-rower Rob Valetini are expected to miss the Wallabies spring tour and get a full Brumbies preseason under their belts.

The Canberra Vikings blooded several young Brumbies in their National Rugby Championship campaign which was ended by the Fijian Drua on Saturday. Brumbies utility Jordan Jackson-Hope was a standout for the Canberra Vikings this season. Credit:Elesa Kurtz Brumbies' Jordan Jackson-Hope, Ryan Lonergan, Ben Hyne, Darcy Swain and Vunipola Fifta all enjoyed breakout seasons with the Vikings. ACT skipper Sam Carter will return rejuvenated after skipping the NRC season and Brumbies coach Dan McKellar said there will be plenty of optimism around his group when preseason kicks off on November 19. "There's a lot of really exciting young talent coming through. On the back of what's happened since Super Rugby finished there's plenty to look forward to but there's a whole lot of work to be done between now and February 15," McKellar said.

"[Jackson-Hope] got really good opportunity this [NRC] season and has been performing well. We had a good chat with him after Super Rugby ended and he's taken that on board. Loading "Darcy is going from strength to strength, he played a good leadership role in NRC around the lineout and showed real physicality around the park both with the ball and without it. "Rob had a couple of medial injuries this year and it's taken him a little while to get his confidence back, which is normal. But I thought in the last few weeks he's performed really well. Everyone thinks about his ball carrying but what has been a standout has been his work rate. "Fifita shows there's a genuine pathway there. He has come down to play NRC and chasing opportunities and performed well and he's now got himself an opportunity in a Super Rugby squad."

Powell was in every Wallabies squad from May 2016 until last month when he was left out of Australia's tour South Africa and Argentina. The 24-year-old has played four Tests and been replaced in the Wallabies squad by NSW Waratahs reserve scrumhalf Jake Gordon. "You can look at it a number of ways, has he lost his spot or is it just a rotation," McKellar said. "He went on last year's spring tour and now this is an opportunity for him to have good preseason and focus on his individual skills and the basics of his game; passing, kicking and running. "I think it's a blessing in disguise for Joe to get more rugby on the board with NRC and also allow some time for his individual and physical development."