It will see the superstar miss the start of the Super Rugby Pacific season, joining fellow capped Wallabies Allan Alaalatoa and Lachlan Lonergan on the sidelines.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel really good.\u00a0Tetering about five and a half months since I had surgery so still a little bit longer to go,” he told the media at the Super Rugby Pacific season launch. “I\u2019ve got a test in a couple of weeks to give me an indication about maybe a closer timeline when I can integrate into team training\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce I can, then it\u2019s about making sure that I feel comfortable to go back to [the]game so that I can get my timing and my feel. It’s pretty important for a player like me to get back up to speed with my handling”<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old lit up the British & Irish Lions series and was one of the Wallabies’ best in their famous win at Ellis Park.<\/p>\n
Tom Wright is deep in his rehab journey with the ACT Brumbies. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Having that ripped away from him suddenly took its toll on the Brumby, crediting his family for helping him through the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was definitely a challenge. It saw me take a little bit of time to reflect,\u201d he admits.<\/p>\n
\u201cI suppose coming home to get surgery straight away, in hindsight, was probably the best thing, so I wasn’t mulling on it, and then the focus actually went to the physical part of getting everything started.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a young one who is just shy of two when I got home from surgery, so I had my hands full there, too,\u00a0which again took my mind off the external noise and pressure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing able to follow the team on a week-to-week basis for the best part of 10 to 12 weeks post-operation,\u00a0it was difficult to watch from afar,\u00a0because I felt like I was being able to contribute a lot when I was there,\u00a0and then you get removed from what you’re so accustomed to for such a long time, that was probably the most difficult part.”<\/p>\n
The Brumbies have undergone a significant roster transformation in 2026, with Noah Lolesio a key departure to Japan.<\/p>\n
In steps Wallabies incumbent Tane Edmed in his place, with Wright already impressed with his growth under the legendary Stephen Larkham.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s going to learn heaps and he already has been soaking in,” he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven to some of ‘Bernie’s’ [Stephen Larkham] calm demeanour, I can see that rubbing off on Tane already so it’s been cool to watch, from the rehab space”<\/p>\n
The ACT Brumbies will finalise their pre-season against the NSW Waratahs on Thursday, before kicking off their season next Saturday in Perth against the Western Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ACT Brumbies fullback Tom Wright has reflected on his rehab process as the Wallaby plots his return to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[58864,64,63,760,85,48013],"class_list":["post-456769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-act-brumbies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456769","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=456769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}