{"id":150342,"date":"2025-09-17T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150342\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:39:07","slug":"nic-white-confirms-his-international-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150342\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic White confirms his international retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran Wallabies scrum-half Nic White has confirmed his retirement from international rugby just over six weeks after making a U-turn on the decision.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old initially called time on his Test career after the Wallabies\u2019 series against the British & Irish Lions in Australia at the beginning of August.<\/p>\n

However, after helping Australia<\/a> to clinch a 22-12 victory over the famous touring team in the final Test in Sydney, White<\/a> recanted that decision as he agreed to be part of the Wallabies\u2019 Rugby Championship<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n

Jake Gordon replaced in the Wallabies squad<\/p>\n

This, after the first choice scrum-half Jake Gordon was ruled out due to injury.<\/p>\n

White went on to make starts for Australia in their matches against South Africa in Johannesburg and Cape Town, respectively, as well as against Argentina in Townsville and Sydney.<\/p>\n

However, with Gordon now back to full fitness, White has confirmed his retirement from the international arena for a second time and he will not be in action in the Wallabies\u2019 remaining Bledisloe Cup Tests with the All Blacks at Eden Park in Auckland and Optus Stadium in Perth.<\/p>\n

White confirmed his latest retirement decision via a hilarious social media post, featuring 18 photographs, with a caption which simply said: \u201cF** I\u2019m gonna miss it.\u201d<\/p>\n

James O\u2019Connor\u2019s \u2018pretty clear\u2019 Bledisloe Cup message as Wallabies star reveals desperation to face All Blacks<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the images showed his most recent Wallabies jersey, from Saturday\u2019s 28-26 defeat to Argentina in Sydney with \u201cTest 77 & out!\u201d scribbled by hand.<\/p>\n

It did not take long for White\u2019s Wallabies team-mates to react to the post, with most of them commenting that it perhaps wouldn\u2019t be his last time in action at Test level.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne more time, one more time. Been an absolute pleasure,\u201d wrote James O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n

\u2018Give us one more!!\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Andrew Kellaway added: \u201c77* (potential unretirement) \u2013 great innings,\u201d and Tom Wright wrote \u201cGive us one more!!\u201d<\/p>\n

White played the first of his 77 Tests against Argentina in Perth in 2013 and represented the Brumbies and Western Force at Super Rugby level, although he also had stints in France with Montpellier (2015 to 2017) and in England with Exeter Chiefs (2017 to 2020).<\/p>\n

When announcing his initial retirement at the end of July, White said: \u201cPulling on the gold jersey was a dream of mine\u2026 rugby has given me so much to be grateful for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been great competition for the nine jersey here in the Wallabies for a number of years, and it feels like the right time to pass on the baton with some more good young players coming through who will need time in the saddle leading into what\u2019s going to be an unbelievable experience of a home Rugby World Cup in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: James O\u2019Connor\u2019s honest admission over THAT controversial pass but insists another officiating error \u2018evened it up\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran Wallabies scrum-half Nic White has confirmed his retirement from international rugby just over six weeks after making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,818,1182,44,31227,17140,85],"class_list":["post-150342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-home-page","tag-internationals","tag-news","tag-nic-white","tag-rugby-championship","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}