Wallace will line up for Waratahs in the Southern Inland grand final on Saturday after coming to the club this year.

To join girlfriend Meghean in Wagga late last year, Wallace gave up a career in the Royal Air Force for a very different existent in Australia.

However he’s been loving the tree change and being part of his new club.

“I’ve loved it and they have been really welcoming and brought me into the club,” Wallace said.

“It has been good.”

Of all things, a quick Google search led the 25-year-old to join the premiers.

It was the first club he found online and so far it has been a good match.

Given his shot in the second row to start the season, Wallace has been a mainstay of the Waratahs forward pack this year.

He has also impressed at the next level as part of the Southern Inland representative team before being selected to play for the Brumbies Provincial team against NSW Country.

While Wallace missed three games due to a neck injury late in the season he’s come back firing for the finals.

The chance to play in a grand final is new to the Englishman.

Moving over from Coventry club Barker Butts, a rugby club named after a road where the ground once was, finals isn’t the done thing.

Instead the team on top of the ladder comes away with the premiership.

The opportunity to win a grand final has the 25-year-old excited. 

“It’s my first grand final since moving over to Australia so I’m looking forward to it,” he said.

“I’m really excited about it.”

He is keen to stick with the club after the season with his residency already in the pipeline.

“I’m not planning on going anywhere,” Wallace said.

Waratahs have failed to get the better of Leeton in three clashes so far this season.

However Wallace is confident they can turn the cards against the unbeaten Phantoms at Leeton No.1 Oval on Saturday.

He believes ball security will be the key.

“100 per cent (we can win),” Wallace said.

“We have to keep our structures that we have been putting together and put them together for the whole 80 minutes.

“By frustrating them and keeping the ball as if we have the ball they can’t do the damage they have been doing.”