Twelve Wallabies have been selected in the Australia A squad to tour the United States of America later this month, with matches against the Eagles in Nashville (October 24) and New Jersey (October 30).<\/p>\n
Kalani Thomas and Zane Nonggorr have been named in order to expose them to more game time having spent the majority of the Test season with the Wallabies squad.<\/p>\n
Capped Wallaby locks Miles Amatosero and Nick Frost have been selected, as have front rowers Matt Faessler, Tom Robertson and Lachlan Lonergan as well as flanker Luke Reimer.<\/p>\n
Faessler will be the tour captain, having led the team to a 71-7 win over Japan XV in Osaka last year.<\/p>\n
Former Australia U20s captain, and skipper of the NSW Waratahs Super Rugby AUS side Eamon Doyle has been named in his first senior national squad, as has Perth junior Nathan Hastie.<\/p>\n
Olympians Corey Toole and Lachlan Anderson have also been included in the group which was jointly selected by Wallabies and Australia A coaching staff.<\/p>\n
Australia A Head Coach Stephen Larkham said: \u201cIt\u2019s pleasing to pull together such a strong group of players for what will be a testing Tour against genuine international opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the players selected have performed well across Super Rugby AUS and to have a number of Wallabies in the mix shows the depth that is being created across the Australian Rugby system.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Australia A squad will depart for the USA on October 18.<\/p>\n
Australia A squad to tour the United States of America (Super Rugby Pacific Club, First Australian Rugby club)<\/p>\n
Forwards (16)<\/p>\n
Miles Amatosero (NSW Waratahs \u2013 South Coogee Red Devils)<\/p>\n
Joe Brial (Queensland Reds – Easts (Sydney))<\/p>\n
Ethan Dobbins (NSW Waratahs \u2013 Wests Bulldogs)<\/p>\n
Eamon Doyle (NSW Waratahs – Woonona Shamrocks)<\/p>\n
Matt Faessler (c) (Queensland Reds \u2013 USQ Saints)<\/p>\n
Nick Frost (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Hornsby Lions)<\/p>\n
Will Harris (Western Force \u2013 Norths Pirates)<\/p>\n
Lington Ieli (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Brisbane Boys\u2019 College)<\/p>\n
Tom Lambert (Queensland Reds \u2013 West Harbour Juniors)<\/p>\n
Lachlan Lonergan (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Tuggeranong Vikings)<\/p>\n
Toby Macpherson (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Goondiwindi Junior Emus)<\/p>\n
Zane Nonggorr (Queensland Reds \u2013 Gold Coast Eagles)<\/p>\n
Luke Reimer (NSW Waratahs – Lindfield Junior Rugby Club)<\/p>\n
Tom Robertson (Western Force \u2013 Dubbo Roos)<\/p>\n
Rory Scott (ACT Brumbies – Canberra Royals)<\/p>\n
Rhys van Nek (ACT Brumbies – Easts Rugby (Brisbane))<\/p>\n
Backs (11)<\/p>\n
Lachie Anderson (Queensland Reds – Dural Rugby Club)\u2019<\/p>\n
Tane Edmed (ACT Brumbies \u2013 West Harbour Juniors)<\/p>\n
David Feliuai (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Sunnybank Dragons)<\/p>\n
Mac Grealy (Western Force \u2013 Souths Kookaburras Toowoomba)<\/p>\n
Nathan Hastie (Western Force \u2013 Wanneroo Rugby Club)<\/p>\n
Tom Lynagh (Queensland Reds \u2013 University of Queensland)<\/p>\n
Dylan Pietsch (Western Force \u2013 Leeton Phantoms)<\/p>\n
Kadin Pritchard (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Springfield Hawks)<\/p>\n
Tim Ryan (Queensland Reds \u2013 Brothers Rugby)<\/p>\n
Kalani Thomas (Queensland Reds \u2013 Springfield Hawks)<\/p>\n
Corey Toole (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Wagga Crows)<\/p>\n
Australia A 2026 fixtures<\/p>\n
Australia A v USA Eagles, 9:00 am AEST on Sunday 25 October at Geodis Park Stadium, Nashville<\/p>\n
Australia A v USA Eagles, 10:00 am AEST on Saturday 31 October at Sports Illustrated Stadium, New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve Wallabies have been selected in the Australia A squad to tour the United States of America later…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,124907,44,2957,2500],"class_list":["post-924857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-a","tag-news","tag-usa","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924857","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=924857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}