“I think he’s actually got me now on caps so I might be chasing him now,” Teddy said. “But every time we get to pull on the jersey together, it’s a very special moment and it’s something we don’t take for granted. Hopefully, we can get on the paddock together again this week and link up here and there.”

Harry adds: “It’s funny growing up you dream about that stuff, and you always talk about it and watch other brothers doing it, whether it’s league or union. But to get the opportunity last year to play together, it was so special and something we’ll remember for a very long time. And then once you get that first crack, you just want more of it.”

It’s all love and support now, sure. But earlier .… well, let’s just say the competitive nature of the Wilson brothers means they have their own dedicated corner of the Manly hospital waiting room.

“I was breaking up these two, a lot of the time,” David said. “It doesn’t matter what they were, what they were playing and doing ... it was always a competition.”

Like the time the duo were playing knee-footy, it got heated and somehow one of Harry’s teeth got lodged in Teddy’s head.

“Off to Manly hospital,” David said.

Or the time Teddy conceded a try in PlayStation rugby, swung a punch at Harry but missed and dislocated his finger on the ground. The fake story offered by both to mum Nicole and the nurses at Manly hospital, about Teddy sitting on his hand, didn’t wash with David. The boys fessed up.

Though a lack of a VHS player at home (and a modest father) means the Wilson boys aren’t inundated with their old man’s highlights, they’re proud of his achievements in the Wallabies jersey, and those of their uncle, former Wallabies centre Jason Little, too.

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“The highlights have come on the TV a few times, a couple of old games, the ’99 World Cup final and a few Bledisloes as well,” Harry said. “It’s always really special to be able to watch that stuff with Teddy, seeing Dad and Uncle Jase out there.”

Shrugging off his esteemed career as being “a long time in the past”, David said he gets as much pleasure watching his boys as anything he experienced on the field.

“I get more of a buzz, watching them play,” he said. “I can see why my dad - their granddad - enjoyed coming out and watching me play every, every week. It is a very special thing.”

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