{"id":538374,"date":"2026-07-12T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:30:05","slug":"trio-added-to-wallabies-squad-for-italy-test-as-donaldson-looks-to-prove-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538374\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio added to Wallabies squad for Italy Test as Donaldson looks to prove fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Wallabies have called Harry McLaughlin-Phillips, Isaac Henry and Joe Brial into the squad as further cover ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Test against Italy in Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">It comes with Carter Gordon (calf), Tom Hooper (shoulder) and Hunter Paisami (knee) not making the trip west.<\/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 the Nations Championship live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">All three spent time within the Wallabies camp during the week, with McLaughlin-Phillips rushed in following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/news\/carter-gordon-tom-hooper-ruled-out-for-wallabies-test-against-france-202677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Gordon&#8217;s and Ben Donaldson&#8217;s calf strains.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">It leaves the Force recruit as a potential option to make his debut as his new club teammate races the clock to be fit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;We should know by Tuesday when he trains, if he can train fully, then he&#8217;s obviously available,&#8221; coach Joe Schmidt said post-game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Schmidt opted to start with Declan Meredith on his debut, using Jock Campbell as flyhalf cover off the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Italy has its own issues with injuries and selections, left battered after a 47-17 defeat to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Lock Niccolo Cannone is set to be suspended after he was red carded for an attempted headbutt on Cam Roigard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Cannone was upgraded from yellow after the incident for collecting the scrumhalf at the base of the ruck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Fullback Tommaso Allan was stretchered from the field after a lengthy break and taken to hospital with an apparent chest injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Winger Malik Faissal also came off midway through the game, potentially opening the door for a return for Aussie-born flyer Monty Ioane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Test looms as Joe Schmidt&#8217;s final in charge of the Wallabies as he prepares to hand over to Les Kiss at the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies have called Harry McLaughlin-Phillips, Isaac Henry and Joe Brial into the squad as further cover ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,2971,182705,105,9876],"class_list":["post-538374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-nations-championship","tag-sports","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}