{"id":98784,"date":"2025-08-27T04:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98784\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:14:15","slug":"wallabies-set-to-be-without-skelton-for-rest-of-rugby-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98784\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies set to be without Skelton for rest of Rugby Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wallabies are set to be without talismanic lock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/will-skelton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Skelton<\/a> for the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/the-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Championship<\/a> according to a report by The Roar.<\/p>\n<p>In a major blow for the Rugby Championship title and Bledisloe series hopes, Skelton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/top-14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 14<\/a> club La Rochelle requires him back for duty ahead of a schedule clash with Bordeaux.<\/p>\n<p>Despite talks of extending Skelton\u2019s time with the Wallabies, it appears that La Rochelle have had the final say.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>Handre Pollard on his goals with the Springboks<\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf Handre Pollard proved once again why he is an integral part of the Springbok machine going into the next World Cup in Australia in 2027.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>Handre Pollard on his goals with the Springboks<\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf Handre Pollard proved once again why he is an integral part of the Springbok machine going into the next World Cup in Australia in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will definitely be on the flight home,\u201d Skelton told reporters following the Wallabies\u2019 first-up win in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/south-africa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a> at Ellis Park earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are having ongoing conversations about what the rest of the Rugby Championship looks like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a think this week and have a chat with the brains trust and see what we get to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skelton\u2019s impressive British &amp; Irish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lions<\/a> series set the way for a Wallabies revival with the enforcer the standout Australian player from the 2-1 series defeat that finished with only a one point aggregate score difference.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was granted an extended time to play the first two rounds of the Rugby Championship, where the Wallabies made history with their first win at Ellis Park since 1963.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of Skelton further dents the Wallabies who are dealing with a major injury toll, with fullback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/tom-wright\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wright<\/a> the latest to be sidelined with a long-term ACL injury.<\/p>\n<p>Halfback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/nic-white\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nic White<\/a> and Joseph Aukuso-Suaalii were taken off with HIAs and their status will be monitored. White had answered an SOS to play on for the Wallabies after injury to Jake Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Wilson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/james-slipper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Slipper<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/dylan-pietsch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Pietsch<\/a> were three more starters who suffered injuries in the first Test against the Springboks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies are set to be without talismanic lock Will Skelton for the rest of the Rugby Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-98784","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\/98784","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=98784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}