{"id":937166,"date":"2026-10-22T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937166\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:58:09","slug":"we-take-a-look-at-australia-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937166\/","title":{"rendered":"We Take a Look at Australia XV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Young Guns<\/p>\n<p>Along with those experienced players comes the young talent looking to get a Wallabies place. Mile Amatosero is 24 years old, has only recently been capped, and is an imposing 6-8 second row who has played professionally in France with Celrmont Auvergne and with the Waratahs of New South Wales. In his most recent cap, his second, he got a red card.<\/p>\n<p>See the USA vs Australia XV October 30 in Harrison, NJ. <a href=\"https:\/\/eagles.rugby\/tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets here&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s not that young. At 24 he&#8217;s entering his prime as an athlete and, in fact, the young talent has still be playing rugby at a high level for years. The youngest players are Brumbies prop Lington leli, who is 22 and really. has only one pro season under his belt, and 6-6 lock\/flanker Toby Macpherson, who is also 22 and just a couple of years out of captaining the Australia U20s.<\/p>\n<p>        Captains for Saturday&#8217;s matches in Nashville: Vittoria Ostuni Minuzzi, Erica Jarrell-Searcy, Jason Damm, and Matt Faessler.<br \/>\n      So, It&#8217;s a Challenge<\/p>\n<p>For the USA, this is a huge challenge. It&#8217;s a true Australia A side, with 12 of the 27 players have already been capped by Australia, three of whom (Dylan Pietsch, Kalani Thomas, and Corey Toole) \u00a0have played between 50 and 90 times for Australia&#8217;s 7s team.<\/p>\n<p>Of the uncapped players, the vast majority are experienced Super Rugby players aged 24-28.<\/p>\n<p>So the USA is most definitely up against a tough team, coached by former Wallaby great Stephen Larkham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australia XV Roster<\/p>\n<p>Forwards<br \/>Miles Amatosero (NSW Waratahs \u2013 South Coogee Red Devils)<br \/>Joe Brial (Queensland Reds &#8211; Easts (Sydney))<br \/>Ethan Dobbins (NSW Waratahs \u2013 Wests Bulldogs)<br \/>Eamon Doyle (NSW Waratahs &#8211; Woonona Shamrocks)<br \/>Matt Faessler (c) (Queensland Reds \u2013 USQ Saints)<br \/>Nick Frost (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Hornsby Lions)<br \/>Will Harris (Western Force \u2013 Norths Pirates)<br \/>Lington Ieli (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Brisbane Boys\u2019 College)<br \/>Tom Lambert (Queensland Reds \u2013 West Harbour Juniors)<br \/>Lachlan Lonergan (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Tuggeranong Vikings)<br \/>Toby Macpherson (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Goondiwindi Junior Emus)<br \/>Zane Nonggorr (Queensland Reds \u2013 Gold Coast Eagles)<br \/>Luke Reimer (NSW Waratahs &#8211; Lindfield Junior Rugby Club)<br \/>Tom Robertson (Western Force \u2013 Dubbo Roos)<br \/>Rory Scott (ACT Brumbies &#8211; Canberra Royals)<br \/>Rhys van Nek (ACT Brumbies &#8211; Easts Rugby (Brisbane))<\/p>\n<p>Backs<\/p>\n<p>Lachie Anderson (Queensland Reds &#8211; Dural Rugby Club)<br \/>Tane Edmed (ACT Brumbies \u2013 West Harbour Juniors)<br \/>David Feliuai (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Sunnybank Dragons)<br \/>Mac Grealy (Western Force \u2013 Souths Kookaburras Toowoomba)<br \/>Nathan Hastie (Western Force \u2013 Wanneroo Rugby Club)<br \/>Tom Lynagh (Queensland Reds \u2013 University of Queensland)<br \/>Dylan Pietsch (Western Force \u2013 Leeton Phantoms)<br \/>Kadin Pritchard (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Springfield Hawks)<br \/>Tim Ryan (Queensland Reds \u2013 Brothers Rugby)<br \/>Kalani Thomas (Queensland Reds \u2013 Springfield Hawks)<br \/>Corey Toole (ACT Brumbies \u2013 Wagga Crows)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Young Guns Along with those experienced players comes the young talent looking to get a Wallabies place.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-937166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937166","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=937166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}