Watch the Wallabies tackle the All Blacks live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nScans revealed the worst possible news with the 27-year-old requiring an operation that will end his year and, with a recovery time of around six months, will likely put a dent in the Queensland co-captain’s participation in Super Rugby Pacific’s opening rounds.<\/p>\n
“Scans have confirmed Tate McDermott will require surgery on a hamstring injury he suffered in Auckland,” the Wallabies said in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n
“He is expected to spend an extended period of time on the sideline throughout his recovery.”<\/p>\n
Wallabies teammate Jeremy Williams said the squad was upset for McDermott, but had faith in the “next man up” in the No.9 jersey.<\/p>\n
“Obviously devastated for Tatey, he’s such a big part of our squad and you never want to see anyone get injured like that,” lock Williams said from Perth.<\/p>\n
“In saying that as well there’s other guys who will step up and you know fill the hole that he’s left and we’ll see that come Saturday.”<\/p>\n
Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt had already called veteran Nic White into the squad as a training partner ahead of Saturday’s second Bledisloe Cup Test in Perth, as the Australians look to respond to a 33-24 defeat.<\/p>\n
It’s the second time White has come out of retirement and answered Schmidt’s call to play on, with the coach describing him as the “gift that keeps on giving”.<\/p>\n
Williams said he wasn’t sure of Schmidt’s selection plans, but the 35-year-old White had been training as hard as ever.<\/p>\n
“We’ll just have to wait and see how they go about it but you know Whitey, he’s got that competitive nature in him,” Williams said of his Western Force teammate.<\/p>\n
“He was out there competing again today like he always does so it’s awesome to have him back in the group and around the boys again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halfback Tate McDermott will undergo surgery on his injured hamstring in a massive blow for the Wallabies as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2500],"class_list":["post-179619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179619","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=179619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}