{"id":851267,"date":"2026-08-11T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851267\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:32:17","slug":"wallabies-news-2026-joseph-aukuso-suaalii-hamstring-injury-australia-vs-japan-team-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851267\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies news 2026: Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii hamstring injury; Australia vs Japan team updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/wallabies-hpr\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wallabies<\/a> have suffered a big blow before their rematch with Japan in Townsville on Saturday, with marquee man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/joseph-suaalii-25ty\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii<\/a> ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>The injury-prone outside centre picked up what the Wallabies described as a \u201cminor hamstring strain\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/rugby\/japan-wallabies-live-scores-results-updates-latest-international-union-news-20260808-p60mlv.html\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">35-32 win over the Brave Blossoms in Osaka.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786440737_571_12441161d42621045b705776478b5584b12e5221.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Isaac Henry and Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii celebrate a tough win.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Suaalii finished the match on the wing, leading to renewed calls for him to switch the back three on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Flook has been called into the squad as cover.<\/p>\n<p>The Wallabies are already without their other first-choice centre, Len Ikitau, who is recovering from an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Paisami started at No.12 last weekend and is now likely to be joined in the starting midfield by Queensland Reds teammate Isaac Henry, who made his Wallabies debut in Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>Filipou Daugunu and Flook are the other options at Les Kiss\u2019 disposal.<\/p>\n<p>He will name his team on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kiss is also without suspended lock Miles Amatosero, with Jeremy Williams and Lukhan Salakaia-Loto ready-made replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies have suffered a big blow before their rematch with Japan in Townsville on Saturday, with marquee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-851267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851267","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=851267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}