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THE spin-off to benching Will Genia in a selection bombshell on Wednesday will be installing the sixth Wallabies captain in just over two years.
Rather than relying on his one World XV player to dig the Wallabies out of a huge hole, besieged coach Ewen McKenzie is to make the biggest call of his winless reign.
He is turning to high-quality Brumby Nic White for the starting spark at halfback to end the Wallabies losing hell against the feisty Argentinians in Perth on Saturday night.
It means No.8 Ben Mowen will lead his country.
John Eales led the Wallabies for the first time in his 32nd Test. George Gregan was seven years into his Test career when he captained in a Test for the first time.
This will be just the seventh Test for Mowen, wonderful recognition of his leadership of the Brumbies but an enormous task nonetheless.
This domino effect is eye-popping now there is confirmation that Tuesday's speculation is spot on.
Former Wallabies fullback-turned-Fox Sports rugby expert Greg Martin ignited the brushfire on his Triple M breakfast radio show in Brisbane yesterday.
"Ewen McKenzie has been searching around for things to change," Martin said.
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"They'll be dropping Will Genia to the bench and replacing him with Nic White. Ben Mowen will become the new captain of the Wallabies."
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The first thing to stress is that McKenzie had probably marked this as a Test for Genia to trim some of his massive workload.
Genia is the Wallabies' No.1 ace but also the most overloaded. He has been subbed off for just 27 minutes in the six Tests this season after playing just about every moment of Queensland's final 11 games of Super Rugby.
The load may have started to sandpaper his game. Genia has made just a single run in his last two Tests although he was constantly trying to gell the Wallabies' stuttering attack last weekend in the 38-12 crash to South Africa.
White is a 16-minute Test novice from his three Test cameos and McKenzie is eager to see what he is made of and also utilise his big, ground-gaining boot.
Quade Cooper was unconvincing at flyhalf in the starting role against the Springboks but the smart call would be to persevere with him.
He did run too laterally against the Boks.
"Wow. Big calls," former Wallaby Rod Kafer said last night.
"It's not fair to say Will has not been good because it's massively influenced by the pack which is battling in front of him.
"There hasn't quite been the same threat to his game of late. White offers a better kicking game and that will help exiting the Wallabies quarter which has been a real worry."
Benching Genia for a role later in the Test is still a major risk because he is so much the oil of the best passages of Wallaby play with his slick pass, try knack and composure when others are fraying around him.
"Benny Mowen did a very good job as captain of the Brumbies. It would be a huge challenge as captain because the job for him would be to get a far greater performance out of the same forward cattle who were underwhelming against the Boks."
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