Bowen is the son of Scott Bowen, former Wallaby who is/was intwined in junior development. Yes in my opinion there are a dozen better 10's than him the most notable being Harry Mclaughlan Phillips who scored the last try and set up what should have been the match winner only for another of the "anointed" juniors in David Vaihu to blow it. Why is Bowen there? I believe it is due to horrible pathway structures we have in place, also being the son of wallaby helps. Boy attends GPS school he is already 75% ahead of the rest of society who dont get looked at for these teams. The issue with our pathways is these kids are put into stupid academies or whatever they want to call it, they are identified at 14 or 15 and my belief is that RA have already invested so much time/money into them that they feel obliged to select them.
That was awful pretty much from start to finish.
Who is Jack Bowen? Is there no better option than him?