Get your tickets to see the Wallabies tackle the British & Irish Lions in Sydney on Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\nThe former Chief joined the Queensland Reds at the start of the Lions tour, featuring for the Reds and AUNZ after becoming eligible for the Wallabies midway through.<\/p>\n
Ross, who was born in Gosford, last played for the All Blacks on July 9 2022, against Ireland, completing the three-year stand-down period.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Wallabies confirmed Harry Potter will stay in Melbourne after picking up a hamstring injury in Saturday\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n
Potter was substituted after 20 minutes, pulling up clutching his hamstring following a Max Jorgensen break.<\/p>\n
It forced the Wallabies to play scrum half Tate McDermott on the wing, with the Reds skipper impressing out of position.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0thought he was super,\u201d coach Joe Schmidt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAt one point, he went down the left-hand touch, and he shot past Jamison Gibson-Park, Finn Russell, and Maro Itoje, just managed to ankle tap him to put him on the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s a super-competent footy player\u00a0and we had a fair bit of confidence.\u00a0During the week, he knew he was covering wing\u00a0and was ready for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Potter ruled out, Schmidt has several options to replace the incoming Waratah.<\/p>\n
Dylan Pietsch was excellent for the Western Force to start the tour, rocketing into contention after debuting for the Wallabies.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Filipo Daugunu was excellent this time last year for the Wallabies against Wales and Georgia; however, he suffered up a concussion last week playing for First Nations Pasifika.<\/p>\n
It could leave Schmidt to select his second debutant of the tour in Brumbies flyer Corey Toole, who lit up Super Rugby Pacific with his speed.<\/p>\n
Alternatively, Schmidt may opt to move Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii to the back three, allowing Hunter Paisami or Josh Flook to come into the centres alongside Len Ikitau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies have called former All Black Aidan Ross into the squad for the final British & Irish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2500],"class_list":["post-26037","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\/26037","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=26037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}