{"id":45354,"date":"2025-08-05T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45354\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:01:06","slug":"wallabies-australia-scrap-giteaus-law-to-open-doors-to-overseas-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45354\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies: Australia scrap ‘Giteau’s Law’ to open doors to overseas stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

“But we’ve also made a choice that we select domestically if the players are of equal calibre, it’s important that we invest in our premier competition in Australia.”<\/p>\n

The Wallabies, who compete for domestic talent with Aussie Rules and rugby league clubs,<\/a> have struggled for depth and consistency in recent years – sliding to sixth in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

The two-time world champions suffered a pool-stage exit at the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.<\/p>\n

Until 2015, Australia had a blanket ban on overseas-based players representing the Wallabies.<\/p>\n

However, with the likes of playmaker Matt Giteau, wing Drew Mitchell and prop Sekope Kepu lured abroad by big contracts, ‘Giteau’s Law’ was introduced to allow a set number of overseas players – who had served time in Super Rugby and the national team – to still be picked.<\/p>\n

The law has been further relaxed in recent years, with players with a commitment to return to Australian rugby excluded from the overseas quota.<\/p>\n

Centre Len Ikitau and prop Angus Bell’s forthcoming season-long sabbatical stints at Exeter and Ulster are such moves.<\/p>\n

However, Gleeson was reportedly excluded from a Wallabies training camp, external<\/a> at the start of this year after news of his impending move to France became public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“But we’ve also made a choice that we select domestically if the players are of equal calibre, it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-45354","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\/45354","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=45354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}