Our next up-and-comer is another guy who has been around a couple of years, and is now really starting to show us that he is heading in the right direction for an All Blacks jersey.

We're talking about Hosea Gear, the younger brother of former All Black Rico Gear.

Hosea has been in outstanding form on the wing for Wellington this year, and has scored eight trys from only six games so far in the Air New Zealand Cup.

He is a massive winger, standing 1.89m tall, and tipping the scales at 102kg - making him an extremely dangerous weapon out wide.

His one weakness is that he doesn't get involved enough, but he has been working on that aspect of his game, and will be all the more dangerous when he fixes it.

It's this aspect of his game, though, that he'll have to improve on quickly if he wants to hear from Graham Henry. Gone are the days where a wingers job was just to score trys - they now have to be prepared to get stuck in around the field.

We believe it's only a matter of time before Hosea follows his brother's footsteps, and makes the step up to the All Blacks. We feel it could even be as early as the end of year tour.

Either way - we're sure there are big things on the horizon for Hosea.