If pundits are right, Reesjan Pasitoa will be seeing plenty of Suncorp Stadium in the future.
The teenage playmaker, a key member of Australia's dominant Schools and 18s side last year, has not yet finished school but has already signed a contract with the Brumbies and will head to Canberra just days after he completes his studies at Nudgee College in November.
Before that though, he will run on to Suncorp Stadium for the first time on July 27 when Nudgee take on Brisbane State High School in a curtain-raiser to the Wallabies-Argentina Test.
The heavyweight GPS clash could be one of the few chances Queenslanders get to see Pasitoa in action before he becomes a bona fide Super Rugby star.
"I'm excited to play at Suncorp, it should be a good game," Pasitoa said.
"I think it's a great idea and a great experience for the schools to be involved.
"It'd be good to have a crowd there as well, that'd be cool for the boys. And we can all hang around and watch the Wallabies as well."
Pasitoa was among an enthralled crowd that watched on at Suncorp Stadium in 2017 as the Wallabies snapped a losing streak to beat the All Blacks 23-18.
The men in gold remain his footy heroes but seeing the likes of former State High centre Jordan Petaia in a Wallabies jersey at the launch of the Brisbane Test make reaching the elite level of the game a realistic goal for Pasitoa.
The Year 12 student remembers facing Petaia in a schoolboys game - "he just ran straight through me, too big, too strong" - just two years ago and the centre's meteoric rise has been an inspiration.
"To see how far he's come is pretty cool," Pasitoa said.
"And it's something that I want to strive for as well."
The next step is the GPS season, which starts next weekend as students return for term three, with Pasitoa's Nudgee team searching for a third consecutive GPS title.
"I haven't really thought about it like that but from a team perspective, it'd be good to go out like that as a team," Pasitoa said of the possibility of joining the ranks of players such as Michael Lynagh (Terrace) and Elton Flatley (Nudgee) to have won three titles in a row.
"It's obviously on my mind but I'm just really focussing on my schoolwork, my academics and stuff and keeping that up and then the school season.
"As the 2019 team, we want to make our own legacy.
"We just take it game by game and don't get ahead of ourselves and hopefully we go well."
