British and Irish lions: Tom Lynaghs Straße to Australia 10 -shirt

The move abroad would bring all ambitions for England to hold. Italy, for which he also qualified and now represents the Louis, would be difficult in view of the logistics.

All Lynaghs chips would be on an Australian green and gold.

On Saturday, five years after this video call, they pay when he begins to Australia against the British and Irish lions in Brisbane.

“We all sat down, he thought about it, spoke to all relevant parties and made a reasonable, mature and informed decision,” says Paul Burke, former Ireland and Harlequins Fly-half and Lynagh's director of Rugby at Epsom College.

“He understood that his talent was recognized here and that he had the opportunity to stay in England, but he went with his heart with what he wanted.

“It was a big step out of his comfort zone without his mother and father stayed with his grandparents and established himself in a new environment.”

Lynagh traveled down with luggage. His father Michael is a 24-carat wall legend with 72 cap. Like Tom, he played half of the fly. Michael was omnipresent in the touches of Tom's school games and looked at himself quietly and supported.

But it was an attitude that, like inherited attributes, which Lynagh Junior marked into Burke.

“He was extremely talented from the start,” added Burke. “He would always be intended for size.

“He was a fantastic cricket player, an excellent footballer and a sublime rugby player.

“His functional movement and its ability to read a game were very natural, but above all it was his character and attitude.

“I said to him when he left that it would keep him adapting.”