#5. Alfie Barbeary (Wasps)
- Age: 20
- Club: Sale Sharks
- Position: Scrum-half
McGeechan wrote: “Few players can impact a game like the former Wasps hooker who switched to the back row. Still just 21, he has been out injured but remains one of the most impressively powerful ball-carriers I’ve ever seen in the Premiership.
“With a high work rate, great support lines, heavy tackling and a natural ability to read the game. If he can stay injury free, 2022 could be his breakthrough year.
“My other back row one-to-watch is London Irish’s outrageously talented teenager Lucas Brooke.”
DID YOU KNOW? Barbeary was a centre through most of his youth career, naming Ma’a Nonu and Mathieu Bastareaud as his ultimate references
