Benn Robinson keen to win back place in Wallabies front row after stint in club rugby Robinson wants to reclaim his No.1 jersey for the Newlands clash. AN unwanted stint in club rugby has served to rejuvenate prop Benn Robinson, who will use the experience to fuel his potential return to the Wallabies side in their clash against South Africa on Saturday. Robinson was controversially cut from Ewen McKenzie's squad for the previous four Rugby Championship Tests, and Australia's scrum has struggled in patches without the loosehead. The 29-year-old was forced back to the Shute Shield, where he helped Eastwood make the grand final only to be slaughtered by Sydney University. While that result and the general ignominy of falling from general opinion as one of the world's premier looseheads to playing club rugby may have stung, Robinson has taken great value from it. "It makes you realise how much you love rugby when you go back and see players work during the day, come in at night time and train really hard, go out there and out their bodies on the line every Saturday," Robinson said. It brought it back to me, how much I love rugby and how special it is to me. And with a daunting task against a monster Springboks pack to come in Cape Town - where no Wallabies side has won in 15 years - Robinson hopes to regain his place and make a statement. "It's good to be back, I definitely have missed it, to see all the faces again, all the boys, it feels like the first day of school again," he said. Driving in I was a bit nervous. There is always that hunger there to get [the jersey] back. You never lose appreciation of the right to represent your country, I'm always proud and honoured every time I get selected to wear the jersey. For me there is always a massive hunger to go out and play for Australia. I was absolutely excited when I got my first one, and I was exactly the same when I got my 59th. It's always a tough ask to play at Newlands, [South Africa] has a very supportive crowd and they definitely lift another level when they play at home. They are a class outfit, always have been, they've got a very strong forward pack at the moment, and they're using it well. Robinson will also use his experience to bolster dressing room morale following the low of the James O'Connor saga and their poor placing on The Rugby Championship ladder, having won just one of the four Tests. "I've known these players for a long time and you can get a read on morale, whether it's through talking to them or making sure training is very intense," Robinson said. When you have an environment where everyone is pushing for positions, going really hard at each other, it's going to improve your performance as a player.