{"id":166811,"date":"2025-09-24T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166811\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:00:08","slug":"rugby-news-2025-wallabies-star-max-jorgensen-to-play-fullback-vs-all-blacks-in-bledisloe-cup-after-andrew-kellaway-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166811\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby news 2025, Wallabies star Max Jorgensen to play fullback vs All Blacks in Bledisloe Cup after Andrew Kellaway injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wallabies<\/a> will be forced into a backline shuffle for Saturday’s daunting Bledisloe Cup<\/a> clash in Auckland after Andrew Kellaway was ruled out on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Kellaway will miss the first Test against New Zealand with a calf strain.<\/p>\n

The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> reports golden boy Max Jorgensen will switch from the wing, where he has starred all season, to start his first game at fullback for Australia.<\/p>\n

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He will beat fellow winger Harry Potter, as well as gun centre Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, to the position.<\/p>\n

“Obviously it’s always been a massive rivalry,” Jorgensen said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Max Jorgensen of the Wallabies celebrates scoring a try.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I watched it growing up and always dreamt of playing in something like the Bledisloe Cup.<\/p>\n

“If I get the opportunity it will be awesome.”<\/p>\n

Jorgensen, 21, has never seen the Wallabies win a Bledisloe Cup.<\/p>\n

Australia is on a 39-game losing streak at Auckland’s Eden Park while the All Blacks have won 51 consecutive games at the famed venue.<\/p>\n

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Jorgensen’s move from wing to fullback has reportedly forced coach Joe Schmidt to recall Corey Toole to the squad, which will be confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

And in another surprise development, veteran playmaker James O’Connor has reportedly been recalled and will line up against New Zealand on Saturday.<\/p>\n

O’Connor made his Wallabies return against Argentina and came off the bench, but the Herald reports he will start in the No.10 jersey this week.<\/p>\n

And in positive news for Schmidt, the Herald reports giant forward Will Skelton will be available for the second Bledisloe game, to be played in Perth the following week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies will be forced into a backline shuffle for Saturday’s daunting Bledisloe Cup clash in Auckland after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-166811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166811","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=166811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}