The Wallaroos have been dealt a tough blow ahead of the 2025 Rugby World Cup, with Charlotte Caslick officially withdrawing from the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Currently recovering from ankle surgery, the three-time Olympian was named in the squad with hopes of coming good midway through Australia’s campaign, but the 30-year-old has officially pulled the plug on her chances of appearing in England.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Caslick will be replaced in the squad by\u00a0Manu’a Moleka, an uncapped centre who will make her debut at the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wallaroos star Charlotte Caslick withdraws from Rugby World Cup<\/p>\n
Charlotte Caslick is out of the Women’s Rugby World Cup, after she was unable to recover in time from a fractured fibula and ruptured\u00a0syndesmosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The former Rugby 7s star took to social media to announce that she would miss the tournament, owing to an extended recovery period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“In sport sometimes the toughest opponent is time,” Caslick wrote on an Instagram post.<\/p>\n
“I am sadddddd and disappointed to share that I won\u2019t be joining the girls in England for the RWC. Four weeks ago I fractured my fibula and ruptured my syndesmosis, we set our sights on pushing a 10\u201312 week recovery into 6, but we decided on Friday it\u2019s best for myself and the team to make the call now as I won\u2019t be available for the opening rounds.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m proud of the challenge I took on converting to 15s and I feel like I grew not only on the field as a footy player but off it as well. I even picked up a whole new group of best friends who are about to fly over and take on the world.<\/p>\n
“I couldn\u2019t be more proud to be able to call myself a wallaroo and I\u2019ll be cheering the girls on from home loudly over the next month. Thank you to everyone who supported me during the last 6 months and continues to support me now through my rehab journey.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ll keep working hard and get my ankle right as soon as I can. Some endings aren\u2019t fair but they still come.”<\/p>\n
In Caslick’s stead, rising talent\u00a0Manu’a Moleka will be added to the team, a player that head coach Jo Yapp is eager to bring into the fold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We’re really fortunate and excited that Manu’a can join us for the World Cup,” Yapp said.<\/p>\n
“Manu’a has been part of the touring squad since the start of the international Test season and thoroughly deserves her opportunity to join us.”<\/p>\n
The Wallaroos’ RWC campaign will begin on August 23, when they take on Samoa at 9 p.m. AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallaroos have been dealt a tough blow ahead of the 2025 Rugby World Cup, with Charlotte Caslick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-58886","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\/58886","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=58886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}