Joe Schmidt is set to unveil his first Test team to meet Wales on Saturday, and yet again there will be no shortage of new faces.
The Eddie Jones era will come to a hard stop on Thursday when Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt names a team containing just five survivors from the 2023 World Cup clash with Wales for Saturday’s match between the sides.
. Jake Gordon and Noah Lolesio will be in the halves, Hunter Paisami at No.12, Filipo Daugunu on a wing and Tom Wright at fullback. But the decision to leave out Darcy Swain, and to overlook departing players Mark Nawaqanitawase, Carter Gordon, Izzy Perese and Lachie Swinton, has left the team looking very inexperienced for this month’s Tests.
Since bombing out of the Tokyo Olympics, the Aussie women’s side has won two world sevens series, a sevens World Cup and the Commonwealth Games.
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