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Wallabies great Toutai Kefu has urged administrators and supporters to be patient with the National Rugby Championship as the discussion around development pathways continues to reverberate around Australian rugby.Two games into his first year as coach of Queensland Country, Kefu is still finding his feet at NRC level having coached in Japan and taken on the top job with Tonga.Im enjoying it, Kefu told ESPN of his NRC experiences so far. The group that Ive got, both players and staff, are a great bunch of blokes. We get along pretty well and the players Ive got, theyre young and theres a bit of potential there; were having fun.With the Wallabies having dropped six straight Test matches ahead of this weekends clash with the Springboks, the heat has come not only for coach Michael Cheika but so too the Australian Rugby Union and its overhaul grassroots plan.Former Wallabies back Brett Papworth was scathing in his recent appraisal of the games administrators while Fairfax Media this week reported on proposed changes to schoolboy rugby - though they look like having little effect on Sydneys GPS competition.As for the NRC, opinion seems to be split over whether its introduction was the right decision or if a move to semi-professionalism for the club competitions in Brisbane and Sydney may have been a better play.But the NRC did achieve a significant milestone last week when Reece Hodge completed a rapid 12-month transition from the North Harbour Rays to the Wallabies in just 12 months.I think if you look at individuals, it could be different...Reece Hodge, it was quite quick, I think it was only a couple of years; theres Rory Arnold whos in the Wallabies setup, Kefu said of the NRC pathway.But if you dont look to that [Test] extent; maybe just look to Super, weve got a young kid, young James Tuttle, he started NRC and then the next year he got a Reds contract. So it can happen quite quickly, but it just depends on the demands of the franchise and the level of the player.Back-to-back defeats to the All Blacks have left Australian rugby supporters wondering if theyll ever see the Bledisloe Cup again, such is the bottomless pit of talent pouring out of New Zealand.Australia will never be able to match the depth in talent of its trans-Tasman rival, but Kefu has seen enough in the NRC to suggest that player base can at least grow and he called on supporters to help raise the competitions profile.I think youve got to be patient, like I said it could be a couple of years or it could be five years, Kefu said.I think the public is still probably warming towards the NRC; the ARU is just trying to get the public more engaged and trying to get more of a connection between the fans and the NRC.In Brisbane, its probably not too much of a problem because weve got two iconic teams in terms of the (Queensland] Country team and the Brisbane [City] team. 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Their preparation for the tournament has not been ideal though as they suffered back-to-back defeats to a Barbados Select XI in a pair of warm-up games.AUSTRALIA David Warner will hope to carry his IPL form into the ODI arena Captain Steve Smith is one of a number of players in the Australia squad returning to action after injury cut short their involvement in the IPL. As well as Smith, Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Starc are also back in contention but John Hastings misses out with an ankle injury.Since winning the World Cup in 2015, the Aussies have been involved in three ODI series, beating England and India before falling to a 2-1 defeat in New Zealand earlier this year.SOUTH AFRICA AB de Villiers leads a dangerous South Africa side in the Caribbean Of South Africas 15-man squad, 11 were involved in this years IPL so they will hope to be able to hit the ground running in the Caribbean and continue their recent in good form in ODIs.Since a shock 2-1 series defeat to Bangladesh shortly after the 2015 World Cup, the Proteas have beaten New Zealand and won in India, while, in their latest ODI series, they came back from 2-0 to beat England 3-2 over the winter - De Villiers hitting an unbeaten century in the deciding match. Also See: West Indies fixtures/results Australia fixtures/results South Africa fixtures/results Live cricket on Sky ' ' '