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Rugby fans took issue with Wallabies coach Michael Cheika over two key positions and opted for uncapped emerging stars Sefanaia Naivalu and Jed Holloway in an Australian Super Rugby team of the year selected by the public.Fijian-born Melbourne Rebels winger Naivalu and NSW Waratahs No.8 Holloway were the only two non-internationals in the team in a Rugby Union Players Association Peoples Choice poll released on Tuesday.?Of the established stars, David Pocock was chosen ahead of Michael Hooper at openside flanker and Israel Folau instead of Tevita Kuridrani at outside centre.Folau was listed at 13 for the Waratahs last ten Super Rugby games, but Cheika has repeatedly nominated fullback as his preferred position for the game-breaking back.At last years World Cup, Hooper invariably started at openside with Pocock at No.8, but the poll only allowed for players to be chosen in one position.Australias immense depth at openside was emphasised by the fact the other three candidates in the poll were also Test players in Sean McMahon, Liam Gill and Matt Hodgson.At 195cm, 23-year-old Holloway potentially gives Cheika an option of a taller No.8 than either Pocock (183 cms) or McMahon (186 cms), who have occupied that spot in recent times.Holloway, who made the Peoples Choice team ahead of established Wallaby Ben McCalman, enjoyed a breakout Super Rugby season which included a hat-trick of tries off the bench against the Highlanders, until he suffered a competition-ending shoulder injury.He could be back in time for part of the upcoming NRC and might be a bolter for the Wallabies spring tour, along with 24-year-old Naivalu, who will then be eligible to represent Australia.RUPAs 2015 Newcomer of the Year, Naivalu scored six tries in as many games in the second half of the Super season.One of the most interesting selections was at right lock, where one-cap Wallaby Adam Coleman got the nod ahead of several other more experienced internationals.Coleman, who made his debut of the bench in the final Test of the England series in June, polled more votes than 62-cap veteran Rob Simmons, Will Skelton (15 Tests) and Sam Carter (13 Tests).Rugby Union Players Association Peoples Choice Team: Dane Haylett-Petty (Western Force), Sefanaia Naivalu (Melbourne Rebels), Israel Folau (NSW Waratahs), Matt Toomua (Brumbies), Rob Horne (NSW Waratahs), Bernard Foley (NSW Waratahs), Nick Phipps (NSW Waratahs), Jed Holloway (NSW Waratahs), David Pocock (Brumbies), Scott Fardy (Brumbies), Adam Coleman (Western Force), Rory Arnold (Brumbies), Greg Holmes (Queensland Reds), Stephen Moore (Brumbies), James Slipper (Queensland Reds). 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According to a report from the Winnipeg Free Press, the Bombers will name Acting GM Kyle Walters to the post full time. Number of men who have played Test cricket for Australia: 443. Number of Australians who have umpired a Test: 91. Number who have done both: five. Number who have done both in the post-war era: one. At least for the time being. Paul Wilson hopes one day to double that last figure and join his former team-mate Paul Reiffel as a rare modern Australian Test player turned Test umpire.Already Wilson has taken some giant strides - at his size there are no other kind - and stood in four ODIs and four T20Is. Hard work and determination gained him a baggy green and those same qualities will be required to earn the umpiring equivalent. On sheer numbers alone it is a massive challenge: the ICCs Elite Panel, from whom most Test umpiring appointments are made, consists of only 12 men.I want to do Test cricket, but its a patience game - just keep getting more experience and do more games, Wilson says. Again, its being in the right place at the right time.There is a reason he used the word again. Right place, right time is how he describes his 1998 call-up to Australias Test team. But that phrase suggests his baggy green was won via nothing but luck. Wilson worked hard to put himself in the right place and waited for the right time to arrive.Like many Test players of the 1990s, he came through the pathway of the Australian Cricket Academy. So far, so normal. But what was unusual was how he came to the Academy. While still a teenager, Wilson left his Newcastle home and travelled halfway across the country to Adelaide to pitch his case to Academy director Rod Marsh.This was not how the Academy worked. Scholars were invited; they didnt just turn up and gatecrash. Until Wilson.I just rocked up to the Academy offices, Wilson says. I said, Im looking to see Rod Marsh... Rod said, Try to get rid of him. Begrudgingly, Rod accepted me to come into his office and say hello. As he describes it, he says, Heres this large lump of a lad who filled in the doorway. Our friendship started from there.You look back at it now and being a father of three kids, I cant sit back and say, dont go and do something unconventional. It was genuinely unconventional at the time, and no one else has really done it since. It was a unique thing and Im very glad I did it.Wilson was given a few weeks at the Academy, which turned into a few months, which eventually turned into a full scholarship. Within a couple of years he had made his domestic one-day debut for his adopted state of South Australia, and a Sheffield Shield debut came in 1995-96. His trajectory kept rising, an ODI call-up coming in 1997-98, and a place on the Test tour of India that followed.Glenn McGrath missed the tour due to a torn abdominal muscle, and Australias attack in the first Test in Chennai was made up of Michael Kasprowicz, Paul Reiffel, Shane Warne and Gavin Robertson. Wilson was just happy to be part of the squad. But come the second Test in Kolkata, he became Australias 376th Test cricketer.I found out the morning of the match, he says. My now umpiring partner Paul Reiffel had got injured in the first Test, so I was in the mix along with Adam Dale, who at that stage hadnt played. And Stuart MacGill was on that tour, and Greg Blewett was bowling some overs... so its me, Dale or MacGill, and I was lucky to get the call-up at Eden Gardens.Mark Taylor announced it, got presented with the cap, the old process from the captain. I was honestly blessed to play one game. There were a handful of guys who werent available for selection for that tour and also that Test match. I was in the right place at the right time, and I was extremely lucky to play one Test match.Not that the match went to plan for Wilson, whose entire Test record consists of 12 overs for 50 runs without a wicket, and no runs from two innings. He remembers the noise of Eden Gardens, the thrill of playing at such a marquee venue, the obsession of Indian fans who knew everything about his career - and the devastation of breaking down with injury mid-match.It was the back end of a long summer and we all go into matches carrying a couple of niggles, he says. What I thought was a niggle was worse than that, and during the Test match it went bang. I did a groin in the Test match and later on was diagnosed with osteitis pubis, which was not really well known at that stage but its a very common one these days.To me it was the devastation of knowing in your own mind youve got an injury thats not going to get you through the Test, let alone the rest of the tour... You know in the back of your own mind that this might be my only chance, and it was. You didnt have to be Einstein to work that out, with all the number of players coming through the system and onto the scene, that it was probably going to be my only chance.And so it was. Wilson never represented Australia again, in any format. He played out his career with South Australia and then Western Australia, and wondered what he would do when it all ended. Coaching was his first move, but something had nagged at him even during his playing days. He describes it as an itch he had to scratch. He wanted to become an umpire.His timing was good, for in the early 2000s, Cricket Australia was keen to get more former first-class players involved in umpiring, hence Reiffel and Rod Tucker were being welcomed into a project panel. After they were promooted to the full national panel in 2005, Wilson was the next in line.dddddddddddd Not that he was lured into it; he instigated the move himself, having discussed the career with umpire Daryl Harper as early as 2002.Its a pretty major decision, he says. In Australia it was uncommon for first-class players to go into umpiring. Rod and Paul were trailblazers. In England its very common. In fact, the majority of the national panel are former first-class players. I thought, Why not? I took the plunge.It took some getting used to, being out on the field but not as a competitor. Concentrating on every single ball of a days play, often for several days in a row.Early on, you probably found yourself drifting, you find yourself going through the old habits of someone fielding at fine leg or mid-on or mid-off, Wilson says. But the routines as a player in the field arent dissimilar to an umpire. You switch up, switch down. When the bowler runs in, as a batter youre switching on for that ball to be bowled, and as an umpire its no different.We try and find a bit of downtime while the ball is dead. But once the bowler is running in you switch on again. Those things that became second nature as a player became very handy as an umpire. You just need to adjust it slightly, because you have to be on and off all day every day as an umpire.What did he find hard at first?Its the nuances, the signals, being on the right side, going to the right side when the ball is in play, staying still, concentrating on the front foot, then bringing the ball into focus - all those things that as an experienced umpire ten years down the track I take for granted as part of my routine. Its a completely different world to being a player, even though were on the same ground.He also learnt quickly that there is far more to being an umpire than making out or not-out decisions. A good umpire is a good man manager, who can defuse a tense situation before it goes too far, or prevent one entirely by communicating well in the first place. And that communication is not only with players, coaches and ground staff, but as you rise to the elite level, it is event managers, media managers, all sorts of additional stakeholders.At the core of the job, though, are the on-field decisions. That is what an umpire is judged on. It looks easy from the comfort of the living room but is deceptively difficult. It is mentally draining - Umpires sleep very well during a four-day game, Wilson says - and certain decisions are incredibly challenging in the split-second an umpire has at his disposal.Lbws are hard when theres bat and pad involved, he says. If everything is close together, thats a seriously tough decision. If its a clear-cut one, fine. When bat and pad are close together and theres two noises, what are the two noises?With the advent of BBL etc, there is also the noise factor. If the players cant hear each other on the field, theres a fair chance that when theres a fine nick it becomes very difficult for umpires to pick things up. Noisy venues are a real challenge for umpires because we use eyes and ears. Sometimes, one of those faculties can be taken away from us purely from it being a noisy venue.DRS is a useful safety net if available and Wilson is a great believer in using the technology, but the system brings its own challenges. And not just for the umpire on the field who has his decisions scrutinised. Sitting in the chair as TV umpire requires a different set of skills to standing on the field.I think most people thought it was the job you went to and just had the pipe and slippers, had your cups of tea, Wilson says. But its a completely different ball game now. Its effectively becoming a specialised role, over time. Your skills are not only to do with going through the processes and protocols, depending on the on-field decision and whether its a straight-out decision or something sent upstairs with a soft signal.But now we also have the advent of live-to-air comms. Then its making sure your communication skills are right - knowing that what youre asking the director for is what the person at home is listening to. You have to make sure that is clear and concise, so that the person at home can see and understand what youre looking for.If we can communicate clearly then its effectively educating the people sitting at home about the process the third umpire is going through. Some of the really good ones around the world are doing that really effectively, and actually educating the person at home watching the game. Youre probably educating the commentators as well, to a degree.Clear communication, forensic analysis, immaculate concentration - these are not traits one might necessarily expect of a big fast bowler nicknamed Blocker. Nevertheless they are traits that he possesses, and have helped him become an international umpire.Perhaps one day he will join Reiffel, Charles Bannerman, George Coulthard, George McShane and Arthur Richardson as Australian Test player-umpires. No doubt that would make him immensely proud, as he is of that one Test back in 1998.In that era, to have played any games for Australia - looking back on it now, at the players around at the time, it was just an absolute honour. ' ' '