Wallabies winger Joe Tomane has been left on the Brumbies bench for Saturday night’s Super Rugby clash with the Queensland Reds at Canberra Stadium.

Brumbies coach Jake White has named Fijian flyer Henry Speight to start on the other wing to comeback hero Clyde Rathbone, who will make his return from a three-year retirement.

Former Melbourne and Gold Coast NRL flyer Tomane played the first Test of 2012 for Australia before injury cut his season short.

White was originally set to continue this week’s niggling tit-for-tat with the Reds by naming a squad, but relented during his Thursday media conference to reveal his starting side and bench.

Queensland director of coaching Ewen McKenzie has delayed announcing his team until Friday to keep an “air of mystery” over his tactics for the Rod Macqueen Cup clash.

“This is by far the best side we can put on the field this weekend,” White said. “There’s no point in playing ducks and drakes out there.

“This is our team, we know our job and we are looking forward to putting it into action.”

Wallabies flanker David Pocock will make his Brumbies Super Rugby debut at No.7 in the round-one match, locking horns with Reds young gun Liam Gill.

Matt Toomua will start at five-eighth, while the creative Christian Lealiifano – a star of last season’s resurgence before suffering a horrific ankle injury – will line up at inside centre.

Brumbies: Jesse Mogg, Henry Speight, Andrew Smith, Christian Lealiifano, Clyde Rathbone, Matt Toomua, Nic White, Ben Mowen (capt), David Pocock, Peter Kimlin, Sam Carter, Scott Fardy, Dan Palmer, Stephen Moore, Ben Alexander. Res: Siliva Siliva, Ruaidhri Murphy, Colby Faingaa, Fotu Auelua, Ian Prior, Joseph Tomane, Robbie Coleman.