Softly-spoken Wallabies winger Henry Speight plans on lifting his voice level, but his lethal finishing is speaking volumes this season.
Speight got his first Test try double in last Saturday's win over Fiji and has been the form Australian winger in Super Rugby.
He has crossed seven times for the Brumbies and reinforced his reputation as one of Australia's deadliest finishers.
The 29-year-old speedster's chances of making Australia's 2016 Olympic sevens team were cruelled by injury, but he recovered in time to make the spring tour.
Arguably in the best form of his career, Speight is still looking for ways to improve and show more of the same scoring form he displayed against Fiji, the country of his birth.
"A bit more chat, usually I get a bit quiet and shy," Speight said on Monday.
"(I'm) just trying to be more vocal and demand the ball a bit more."
If Speight is the quiet assassin, then fullback Israel Folau is clearly the Wallabies' smiling assassin.
Folau also bagged a brace against Fiji, ending a near year-long try drought at Test level.
"He was in his element at the weekend, I didn't now about the drought until after (the game)," Speight said.
'When he's got that smile on his face, he's in a different level.
"For guys outside (him) like myself and the other wingers we take a lot of confidence out of that - that he's playing well and back in his groove."
Speight is hoping for another start on Saturday in Sydney against a Scotland side without outside backs Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour, who are in New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions.
He stressed the Wallabies backline was still to fully click into gear.
"There's still things we can work on, a few teething errors on the weekend which is normal," Speight said.
"We've got another week to rectify that and another week to gel.
"There's a lot of competition within that backline and that will only bring the best out of us, which is a positive."
Speight was quick to credit his teammates for creating his opportunities against Fiji.
"I was just fortunate that the two tries were off very good teamwork and a few good slick hands in the midfield, so wingers are beneficiaries of that," he said.
"Hopefully we can take confidence out of that and get some momentum leading into this weekend."
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