{"id":181517,"date":"2025-10-01T02:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181517\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:53:12","slug":"wallabies-veteran-james-slipper-announces-retirement-from-test-rugby-as-james-oconnor-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181517\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies veteran James Slipper announces retirement from Test rugby as James O\u2019Connor dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wallabies\u2019 most capped player, James Slipper, will play his last Test on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Rugby Australia announced on Wednesday that Slipper will bow out of Test rugby after this weekend\u2019s Bledisloe Cup match in Perth.<\/p>\n

After bringing up his 150th Test last week in Australia\u2019s loss to the All Blacks, Slipper will draw the curtain on a decorated career that began in 2010. Slipper will still play for the Brumbies in next year\u2019s Super Rugby season.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepresenting the Wallabies has been the single proudest achievement of my rugby career and a privilege I have never taken for granted,\u201d Slipper said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a young kid on the Gold Coast playing backyard footy with my brothers, it was a dream to pull on the gold jersey, and to be able to say I\u2019ve lived my dream for what\u2019s coming on 16 years is more than I could ever have asked for.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like the right time for me to step away from Test rugby. There\u2019s a number of good young props 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.<\/p>\n

\"Australian<\/p>\n

Australian veteran James Slipper will play his final Test on Saturday.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will also allow me to spend more quality time with my wife, Kara, and two young daughters, Lily and Ava, which is something that I owe to them after 16 years of full-time professional rugby.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s plenty of people I need to thank, and I\u2019ll do that when the time is right, but for now, my focus is on preparing well to finish The Rugby Championship in a positive manner with the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies\u2019 most capped player, James Slipper, will play his last Test on Saturday. Rugby Australia announced on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-181517","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\/181517","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=181517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}