Forget the tinker, tailor, solider, spy conundrum. Hong Kong has a new and even more intriguing combination. A teacher, realtor and barman will present an exciting challenge to opponents in the HSBC Asian Five Nations Top Five tournament this season, a puzzle that hopefully will be tough to solve as the team go in search of a first championship title.
The trio - Ian Ridgway, Tom Bolland and Steve Nolan - are the 1, 2 and 3 of Hong Kong rugby. Those numbers represent the front-row positions in the team. Of course, there are others challenging for those spots within the 31-strong squad picked for the fifth season of the Asian Five Nations, but these three are the likeliest favourites when it comes to crunch time.
Certainly, everyone seems to think so, even the think tank of Dai Rees, the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union's head of performance and national coach, and Leigh Jones, the head coach, who both believe the Hong Kong Football Club trio will provide an extra dimension to the bid to wrest the title away from recurring winners Japan.
'It is great to have a bit of depth in the front row, what with the new boys from Hong Kong Football Club coming in and adding to the players we successfully developed last year,' Jones said. 'We always want to measure ourselves against the best and it's probably been fair to say that in the past against Japan we have lacked that solid base we needed. I think the depth of our front row is going to really be able to help give us that base to play the type of rugby we want to play in the coming weeks.'
Rees, who will take on a more managerial role this season, added: 'Each of these three guys adds strength and depth to our squad and obviously they have been dominant and heavier figures and stronger than we are used to having in Hong Kong. They have been a big boost for us and [it helps] that they play together week in, week out for the same club.'
Ridgway, Bolland and Nolan are already capped - although this is the first time for the trio in the A5N - having represented Hong Kong in last December's Emirates Airlines Cup of Nations against Brazil, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates in Dubai. Perhaps it is just coincidence that Hong Kong emerged champions of the inaugural event.