Beauden Barrett wants to make his klein boetie, Jordie, cry when they cross swords in Super Rugby Aoetearoa next week.
Arguably the most talented set of brothers on the rugby planet - with Scott playing for the Crusaders - Beauden, who will make his Blues debut in next Sunday’s clash against former team the Hurricanes, has started the bekgeveg already.
The 29-year-old reminded Canes No.15 Jordie - six years his junior - that he is still the boeta in the family, with Scott being 26.
MIDDLE: Scott Barrett
Beauden says: “He [Jordie] is a big boy now - it’s been a while since I used to make him cry at home in the backyard.
“It’s going to be a good match-up. Hopefully I can get out there on the park. I can’t take anything for granted.
“With Scott I didn’t actually bump into him too often being a big brute in the second row. Whereas in the backs we [Jordie and I] do clash a fair bit so there may be a few contacts.”
BIG BOETA: Beauden Barrett
Of playing against his former teammates in the 5.05am (SA time) clash next weekend, flyhalf Beauden adds: “There’s nothing like taking the field and competing and it’s going to be extra significant being against my old mates.
“I’ve done so much training up until this point so I can’t wait to rip in and put on a Blues jersey for the first time.”
Opposing Beauden, his ex-teammates will be out to spoil his Auckland debut.
Former Stormers winger Kobus van Wyk, who joined the Hurricanes at the start of the season, says the All Blacks star is a marked man.
The South African reveals that they have made all kinds of plannetjies to stop the two-time World Rugby Player of the Year.
PLAN: Kobus van Wyk
Van Wyk, who only arrived in Wellington when Barrett had already left, explains: “Basically, we have to stop him,
apparently.
“He’s quite quick they say, so that’s the talk in the camp; to just stop him and get under his skin.”