The Wallabies are delighted to confirm Tom Donnelly will join the coaching staff ahead of the 2025 Flight Centre Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n
Donnelly will replace current assistant coach Geoff Parling who will return to the UK following the end of the Qatar Airways British & Irish Lions Tour.<\/p>\n
A former international lock for New Zealand, Donnelly played 15 Tests between 2009 and 2010, nearly 100 games of Super Rugby and three seasons in the French top 14 before transitioning into coaching.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old spent the 2025 Super Rugby Pacific season with the Western Force, having moved West after spending the previous two years as an assistant with the Highlanders in Dunedin.<\/p>\n
Before that, he was the head coach of NPC side Otago and had a stint leading New Zealand\u2019s Under-20s side when they won the 2022 Oceania Championship.<\/p>\n
Incoming Wallabies assistant coach Tom Donnelly said: \u201cI\u2019m honoured to have an opportunity to help contribute to the Wallabies and to work alongside Joe and the wider coaching staff and management.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWatching from afar, the journey the team is on and the improvement they are making is exciting. I\u2019m looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and doing my part to continue the ongoing growth of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rugby Australia\u2019s Director of High Performance, Peter Horne said: \u201cTom has spent the best part of the last 25 years involved in professional Rugby and his expertise around the lineout and set piece will be highly valuable for the Wallabies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got a great understanding of the current Super Rugby Pacific landscape as well as experience playing at the highest level which makes him a great fit for the role.\u201d<\/p>\n
2025 Wallabies Tests<\/p>\n
Wallabies 21 defeated Fiji 18 on Sunday July 6 at McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle<\/p>\n
British & Irish Lions Tour<\/p>\n
Wallabies 19 defeated by the British & Irish Lions 27 on Saturday July 19 at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane<\/p>\n
Wallabies 26 defeated by the British & Irish Lions 29 on Saturday July 26 at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne<\/p>\n
Wallabies v British & Irish Lions at 7:45pm AEST on Saturday August 2 at Accor Stadium, Sydney<\/p>\n
The Flight Centre Rugby Championship\/Bledisloe Cup<\/p>\n
Wallabies v South Africa at 1:10am AEST on Sunday August 17 at Emirates Airline Park, Johannesburg<\/p>\n
Wallabies v South Africa at 1:10am AEST on Sunday August 24 at DHL Stadium, Cape Town<\/p>\n
Wallabies v Argentina at 2:30pm AEST on Saturday September 6 at Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Townsville<\/p>\n
Wallabies v Argentina at 2:00pm AEST on Saturday September 13 at Allianz Stadium, Sydney<\/p>\n
Wallabies v New Zealand at 3:05pm AEST on Saturday September 27, Eden Park, Auckland<\/p>\n
Wallabies v New Zealand at 5:45pm AWST on Saturday October 4 at Optus Stadium, Perth<\/p>\n
Spring Tour<\/p>\n
Wallabies v Japan at TBC on Saturday October 25 at National Stadium, Tokyo<\/p>\n
Wallabies v England, at 2:10am AEDT on Sunday November 2 at Allianz Stadium, London<\/p>\n
Wallabies v Italy at 4:40am AEDT on Sunday November 9 at TBC<\/p>\n
Wallabies v Ireland at 7:10am AEDT on Sunday November 16 at Aviva Stadium, Dublin<\/p>\n
Wallabies v France at 7:10am on Sunday November 23 at TBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies are delighted to confirm Tom Donnelly will join the coaching staff ahead of the 2025 Flight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2500],"class_list":["post-25139","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\/25139","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=25139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}