{"id":276391,"date":"2025-11-10T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276391\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:13:07","slug":"gordons-unreal-wallabies-return-as-flyhalf-shrugs-off-injury-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276391\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon&#8217;s &#8216;unreal&#8217; Wallabies return as flyhalf shrugs off injury concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Wallabies fly-half Carter Gordon has shed light on his second coming in the gold jersey as he remains confident that his ongoing quad issue won&#8217;t affect his return to Rugby Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Gordon impressed in his first game back in the gold jersey in two years, scoring a try in the seven-point defeat to Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of the 2025 Autumn Nations Series live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The 24-year-old has spent the majority of his time away from the game, sidelined with a neck injury due to a spinal fluid leak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">\u201cIt felt unreal. Anytime you get the opportunity to play for your country, it&#8217;s massive,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">\u201cFor me, having a tough year and really not having any idea of what was going to be happening throughout the year and then getting a chance to come back to Union and play for the Wallabies is massive and something I&#8217;m extremely grateful for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Gordon missed the first two games due to a quad injury and came off the court after 54 minutes, pulling up sore. The flyhalf was confident he would be right to face Ireland on Sunday (AEDT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">\u201cI came off with a little bit of quad tightness but it\u2019s been feeling better each day,&#8221; he believes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">\u201cWe\u2019ll rip into training this week and it should be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The injury noticeably kept the former Rebel from kicking, with Andrew Kellaway taking over the duties from the tee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Gordon was eager to regain the duties heading forward as he continues to work his way back into the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;Early in the week, we just made a decision that we were going to offload some of that kicking, obviously, but ideally back into pretty much doing all of it. Obviously we&#8217;ve got to keep tabs on it, making sure I&#8217;m not doing too much, but ideally get back to doing all the kicking,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">\u201c&#8230;Definitely, I want to be that goal kicker. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been working on the last few years and we&#8217;re lucky that we&#8217;ve got a few guys on the team who can take that if they need to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallabies fly-half Carter Gordon has shed light on his second coming in the gold jersey as he remains&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2500],"class_list":{"0":"post-276391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wallabies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276391","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=276391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}