{"id":928449,"date":"2026-10-15T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928449\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:40:08","slug":"zac-lomax-called-into-australia-a-squad-for-usa-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928449\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Lomax called into Australia A squad for USA tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Western Force star Zac Lomax will get his first taste of international action after being called up to the Australia A squad for a trip to the USA to face the national side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The cross-code star is joined by Harry McLaughlin-Phillips, who replaces the injured Tom Lynagh, ruled out after another injury setback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of Saturday&#8217;s quad-header with the Wallabies, Wallaroos and Sevens teams live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Lomax, who moved to Rugby Union midway through the Super Rugby Pacific season, will get his chance to push for a Spring Tour call-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The former NSW and Australian league representative featured seven times for the Force in 2026, scoring on his starting debut against the Crusaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">He returned from a groin injury during Super Rugby AUS, where the winger was trialled at midfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Lomax was in and out of the Force&#8217;s squad, with his partner recently giving birth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Meanwhile, Wallabies squad member McLaughlin-Phillips will travel to Nashville with the squad in place of his former Reds teammate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">It continues Lynagh&#8217;s luckless run with injury after a disrupted 2026 season, missing almost the entire Super Rugby season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Lynagh returned during the AUS competition, with the Reds missing the finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The injury gives McLaughlin-Phillips a chance to build on his Wallabies claim after his maiden call-up to the Test squad last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The new Force recruit guided the team to the Super Rugby AUS title and has been in camp with the Test side throughout the Bledisloe Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Australia A will play two tour matches against the USA Eagles in Nashville (October 24) and New Jersey (October 30).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">ACT Brumbies coach Stephen Larkham will oversee the team along with former Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt and Force boss Simon Cron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Force star Zac Lomax will get his first taste of international action after being called up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,124907,760,85],"class_list":["post-928449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-a","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928449","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=928449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}