Watch every second of the Junior World Championship live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nPritchard’s move to fullback opens the door for Bird to start at inside centre, with Taione Taka back after his concussion.<\/p>\n
Sevens star Wallace Charlie shifts to the wing, with Whitfeld elevated from the bench after joining the squad late as an injury replacement.<\/p>\n
“We are determined to bounce back from the tough defeat last time out and are hopeful that some of the changes will give us a lift,” Whitaker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWales have been strong throughout the group stages, and we know we’ll have to be at our best to come out winners.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sam Blank comes in at scrumhalf, with Finn Mackay ruled fit to play as he continues to deal with a hand issue.<\/p>\n
In the forwards, Talaileva headlines a new-look back-row after his stellar performances off the bench.<\/p>\n
Marshall Le Maitre replaces Tom Robinson (ankle), with Eli Langi taking over the captaincy.<\/p>\n
Jacob Job returns to the starting side at prop, swapping with Kingbenjamin Swerling-Finaipepe, while Isaac Fonua starts at lock.<\/p>\n
Jonty Fowler is among the new faces on the bench, joined by the likes of Angus Grover, Toby Brial and Tom Farr-Jones.<\/p>\n
Scotland will take on Argentina in the other fifth-place semi-final.<\/p>\n
Kenneth Harris (shoulder) and Leo Jaques (hamstring) have returned home and will not be available for the final two matches.<\/p>\n
Australia U20 team list v Wales U20<\/p>\n
Monday 13 July 2:30am (AEST) at Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi.<\/p>\n
1. Jacob Job<\/p>\n
2. Ewald Kruger<\/p>\n
3. Lehopoame Leota<\/p>\n
4. William Ross<\/p>\n
5. Isaac Fonua<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0TJ Talaileva<\/p>\n
7. Marshall Le Maitre<\/p>\n
8. Eli Langi (c)<\/p>\n
9. Sam Blank<\/p>\n
10. Finn Mackay<\/p>\n
11. Riley Whitfeld<\/p>\n
12. Charlie Bird<\/p>\n
13. Taione Taka<\/p>\n
14. Wallace Charlie<\/p>\n
15. Treyvon Pritchard<\/p>\n
Substitutes<\/p>\n
16. John Grenfell<\/p>\n
17. Kingbenjamin Swerling-Finaipepe<\/p>\n
18. Edwin Langi<\/p>\n
19. Toby Brial<\/p>\n
20. Luca Cleverley<\/p>\n
21.\u00a0Angus Grover<\/p>\n
22. Jonty Fowler<\/p>\n
23. Tom Farr-Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia U20 superstar Treyvon Pritchard has been named at fullback as part of widespread changes to the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,8626,760,85],"class_list":["post-792659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-u20","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792659","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=792659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}