{"id":938144,"date":"2026-10-23T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:16:12","slug":"wallaroos-vs-scotland-2026-rugby-news-biting-allegation-video-georgina-friedrichs-australia-wxv-global-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938144\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallaroos vs Scotland 2026: Rugby news, biting allegation video, Georgina Friedrichs, Australia WXV Global Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wallaroos<\/a> centre Georgina Friedrichs accused a Scotland<\/a> player of biting her in Canberra on Friday night, but no action was taken because of a lack of evidence.<\/p>\n

The WXV Global Series Test was stopped in the 20th minute at GIO Stadium when Friedrichs approached referee Maggie Cogger-Orr complaining that she had been bitten on her left wrist.<\/p>\n

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Georgina Friedrichs shows her wrist to the referee.\u00a0Stan<\/p>\n

The experienced official looked at Friedrichs\u2019 arm and watched several replays of the alleged incident.<\/p>\n

Friedrichs was unsure which player had committed the act.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s a very serious allegation, but we can only work with what we can see,\u201d Cogger-Orr said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there\u2019s no mark on her hand… so based on the available footage, there\u2019s no conclusive evidence that there had been foul play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cogger-Orr had a busy match, dishing out yellow cards to Wallaroos centre Cecilia Smith, No.10 Waiaria Ellis and 50-Test prop Eva Karpani.<\/p>\n

Smith then returned to the park and copped a second half red card for head-on-head contact.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the way we wanted it to end,\u201d Andrew Swain said in commentary.<\/p>\n

Scotland led 17-14 at halftime and had hopes of a historic first win over Australia.<\/p>\n

But Tim Walsh\u2019s side rallied in the second half to ensure retiring stars Smith and Emily Chancellor<\/a> went out as 38-31 winners.<\/p>\n

Walsh will hand the coaching reins to Sione Fukofuka next year.<\/p>\n

Fukofuka resigned as Scotland coach in August, returning to Australia on compassionate grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallaroos centre Georgina Friedrichs accused a Scotland player of biting her in Canberra on Friday night, but no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-938144","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\/938144","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=938144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}