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GRAPPLING with breakdown lord Richie McCaw is the most intense classroom any young backrower can learn in, as Curtis Browning is about to discover.
Everyone comes out wiser for the experience, but only a handful come out winners against the most decorated of All Blacks. Five cameos off the bench over the past 12 months have primed Browning, 20, for Sunday's up-close lesson when the Reds fight for pride against the Crusaders.
Beau Robinson is the Reds' openside flanker, but it falls on all the home backrow to take the fight to McCaw at Suncorp Stadium.
Crusaders star Richie McCaw is the best in the business. Source: Getty Images
Far from being daunted by the occasion, 109kg Browning is relishing a backrow stoush.
"All forwards love the physicality and I'm no different there," the former Australian under-20 captain said.
"I love getting down and dirty and getting through the work. Testing yourself against one of the very best like Richie is what you play for.''
When Browning was just a child he would run around his grandfather's living room in the Wallabies honour cap that may one day loom on the horizon of his own career.
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The grandson of 1960s Wallabies' centre Dick Marks can show an early snapshot of what that future may be with some of the storming runs the Reds' attack has so lacked.
The Reds' attack has to be better organised for that to happen so that runners such as Browning are steaming off Quade Cooper passes in close to get an arrowhead of momentum.
World Cup-winning skipper McCaw may turn 34 in December, but it is the shrewdness of his decision-making that is his speed advantage.
"He picks and chooses his times brilliantly," Browning said.
Curtis Browning is ready to take on Crusaders star Richie McCaw. Picture: Jack Tran Source: News Corp Australia
Reds coach Richard Graham admitted he gave strong consideration to switching lock Rob Simmons to flanker to beef up the pack, but has backed Browning there instead.
The Reds have won on the last three occasions the Crusaders have visited Brisbane, but momentum has swung significantly lately.
The Crusaders have won four straight. The Reds have lost that many in a stretch to be seven-point underdogs.
Savour this appearance by McCaw. It could be his last visit to Suncorp Stadium as a Crusader, although the Bledisloe Cup Test on October 18 is still to come as an All Black.
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