WATCH BELOW live or on demand from 2:20 pm AEDT. Also watch on Stan Sport. <\/a><\/p>\nThis follows a convincing win over the NZ Barbarians earlier in the week, with the NZ side defeating Australian Schoolboys<\/p>\n
Hunter Reich moves into the starting side in place of Charlie Tanner, with Tahj Smith shifting back to number eight and captain Justice Taumoepeau moving to the other side of the scrum.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Taj Scarr moves from the bench to left wing in place of Faf Krueger, partnering Aidan Wunsch to form an imposing back three.<\/p>\n
Krueger will slot back to the bench, complemented by the likes of Aiden Luke, Iliyaz Viliamu, Hasani Bloomfield, Jack Calleja, Bareek Kleine-Deters Ausage and Izak Holmes, who will continue their rich vein of form as finishers.<\/p>\n
The Australian Schoolboys will also be playing on Sunday, taking on New Zealand M\u0101ori in their final match of the series too.<\/p>\n
Both matches will be streamed live on YouTube and Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA U18 TEAM TO PLAY NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS<\/p>\n
1. Mark Falaniko-Peterson<\/p>\n
2. Oliver Smith<\/p>\n
3. Isaiah Sheck<\/p>\n
4. Harrison Asi<\/p>\n
5. Jack Burton<\/p>\n
6. Hunter Reich<\/p>\n
7. Justice Taumoepeau (c)<\/p>\n
8. Tahj Smith<\/p>\n
9. Flynn Farrell<\/p>\n
10. Wilson Ruthven<\/p>\n
11. Taj Scarr<\/p>\n
12. James Smith<\/p>\n
13. Taione Taka (vc)<\/p>\n
14. Aidan Wunsch<\/p>\n
15. Jack Plamondon<\/p>\n
Substitutes<\/p>\n
16. Aiden Luke<\/p>\n
17. Iliyaz Viliamu<\/p>\n
18. Hasani Bloomfield<\/p>\n
19. Jack Calleja<\/p>\n
20. Bareek Kleine-Deters Ausage<\/p>\n
21. Izak Holmes<\/p>\n
22. Jack Proctor<\/p>\n
23. Faf Krueger<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA U18 AND AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLBOYS 2026 FIXTURES<\/p>\n
Sunday 4 October at St Paul\u2019s Collegiate School, Hamilton<\/p>\n
Australia U18 v New Zealand Schools – 2:30 pm AEDT<\/p>\n
New Zealand Barbarians U18 v Samoa U18<\/p>\n
Australian Schoolboys v New Zealand M\u0101ori – 10:30 am AEDT<\/p>\n
Tonga U18 v Fiji U18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVE: Australia U18 will look to maintain their streak as they face the New Zealand Schools in Hamilton.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,78833,44],"class_list":["post-915817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-u18s","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915817","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=915817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}