Tom Banks will start at fullback as he continues his return from injury, while Melbourne Rebels scrumhalf James Tuttle takes over the captaincy for Australia A in their final match versus a Japan XV in Osaka on Friday night.
Some Wallabies players have been left out of the 23 – including Jock Campbell, Nick Frost and Matt Gibbon – and are thought to be returning home early.
Although the day hasn’t been confirmed, the thinking is that Wallabies mentor Dave Rennie will signify his squad for the five-match European tour later this week.
Tuttle takes over at No.9 from Ryan Lonergan – the skipper for the past two wins – and will partner Ben Donaldson in the halves with Tane Edmed on the bench.
Banks made a successful return in the 22-21 win in Fukuoka on Saturday afternoon, scoring an spanking-new try with his second touch without coming onto the field at halftime.
He has been named in a when three slantingly Mark Nawaqanitawase and Suliasi Vunivalu, with selectors sticking to their word of giving the former NRL three starts on the Japanese tour. Vunivalu has failed to provide the kind of spark many were hopping for in the opening two matches, while Nawaqanitawase scored a double as a reserve in game one.
Mark Nawaqanitawase repping Australia at the Comm Games sevens. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
An all capped front row sees Tom Robertson at loosehead with hooker Lachlan Lonergan returning the side and Pone Fa’amausili, who had an impressive 50 minutes last weekend, the tighthead prop.
Ned Hanigan shifts into lock slantingly Ryan Smith while Rory Scott earns his first start of the tour at blindside flanker. Brad Wilkin plays then at No.7 and Seru Uru gets his first start of the tur at No.8.
Jason Gilmore has moreover selected a new centre pairing with Hamish Stewart named slantingly Isaac Henry.
The game will be streamed on Stan Sport and kicks off at 8:30pm AEDT on Friday.
Australia A
- Tom Robertson (Western Force)
- Lachlan Lonergan (ACT Brumbies)
- Pone Fa’amausili (Melbourne Rebels)
- Ned Hanigan (NSW Waratahs)
- Ryan Smith (Queensland Reds)
- Rory Scott (ACT Brumbies)
- Brad Wilkin (Melbourne Rebels)
- Seru Uru (Queensland Reds)
- James Tuttle (c) (Melbourne Rebels)
- Ben Donaldson (NSW Waratahs)
- Mark Nawaqanitawase (NSW Waratahs)
- Hamish Stewart (Western Force)
- Isaac Henry (Queensland Reds)
- Suliasi Vunivalu (Queensland Reds)
- Tom Banks (ACT Brumbies)
Replacements - Billy Pollard (ACT Brumbies)
- Richie Asiata (Queensland Reds)
- Archer Holz (NSW Waratahs)
- Cadeyrn Neville (ACT Brumbies)
- Ollie Callan (Western Force)
- Ryan Lonergan (ACT Brumbies)
- Tane Edmed (NSW Waratahs)
- Dylan Pietsch (NSW Waratahs)
Cheika unpeace looming
Former Wallabies mentor Michael Cheika is unswayable not to lose focus as a potential unpeace looms between his two national coaching roles wideness both codes of rugby.
Cheika was scheduled as throne mentor of Lebanon for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup and well-set to honour his transferral pursuit its 12-month wait despite in the meantime stuff promoted to a similar role with Argentina.
If the Cedars get through their group, they would most likely play Australia in the first quarter-final at Huddersfield on Friday, November 6, two days surpassing the Pumas take on Eddie Jones’ England at Twickenham in the storing internationals.
“At this stage, all those things are prioritised by games, so whichever game is first goes first,” Cheika said at the World Cup launch in Manchester.
“I’ll be honest, I haven’t plane looked at dates considering one thing I’ve learned well-nigh World Cups is that you should not squint forward, you should only squint right in front of you.
“If you start thinking well-nigh what’s lanugo the road, you’ll get unprotected out.”
England reveal big World Cup bonuses
The gulf in funding between the top teams at the Women’s World Cup has been highlighted in the past few days.
As the focus is on the lack of money misogynist to the Australian players it has been revealed the hot favourites of England are looking at healthy bonuses if they win the tournament.
All 32 members of the English squad will earn a $26,000 bonus if they lift the trophy. That bonus will come on top of their contract salaries with the Rugby Football Union.
The bonus structure which is moreover in place for the seven players in Englands squad who are not on full-time contracts is reportedly the most generous scheme overly well-set between the Rugby Football Union and its sexuality players for a Rugby World Cup.
The $26,000 is considerable considering the top is players receive $55,000 a year.
Meanwhile, the Aussies are still at ventriloquist level, and Wallaroos’ Em Chancellor said the gaps in funding was having an impact on their results.
If you squint at the way we played at the start of the year to the way we played [on Saturday], you can see that in the short time weve had together weve ripened so well as a team, Chancellor told the Sydney Morning Herald.
You squint at it and go holy smokes, if we had increasingly resources and looked at that full-time option, like the other teams were competing against, of undertow wed be increasingly competitive versus New Zealand. We had 30 minutes versus a professional team where were completely dominating the game and then their professionalism comes into play and they come over the top of us. Were playing from a disadvantaged position.
Were not going to use it as something to stand overdue or as an excuse but its the reality of womens rugby here and the differences virtually the world in terms of the investment (national) unions are making in the game.
Monty Ioane to squatter Wallabies
Italy have named Melbourne Rebels’ new signing Monty Ioane in their squad for the storing series, including a Test versus the Wallabies.
Ioane, 27, left Benetton just surpassing the start of this season – citing mental health reasons – to move when to Melbourne.
Italy start their November wayfarers with a match versus Samoa surpassing they take on southern hemisphere heavyweights Australia and South Africa.
