Tane Edmed will take the Wallabies\u2019 playmaking reins again against England as Carter Gordon\u2019s eagerly awaited return to international rugby union has been put on hold.<\/p>\n
Gordon, the eight-Test fly-half who played at the last World Cup for Australia before sensationally leaving the code to sign with the Titans, has secured a release from his NRL deal to join the Wallabies\u2019 tour.<\/p>\n
But he is still believed to be struggling with a quad strain picked up in training last week and the 24-year-old has been left out of the team seeking back-to-back wins against England at Twickenham for the first time in 16 years.<\/p>\n
Australia are undermanned, hampered by not being able to select key overseas-based stars like their English-based player of the year Len Ikitau, Tom Hooper and James O\u2019Connor, while the hosts are at full strength.<\/p>\n
That has prompted criticism that the Wallabies\u2019 bid to move up the World Rugby rankings before December\u2019s draw for their home 2027 World Cup has been unfairly hit, as England are able to play all of their Premiership-based players.<\/p>\n
But the Australia coach, Joe Schmidt, fresh from overseeing a hard-fought victory against Japan<\/a> with very much a second-string outfit, is still confident he has a winning side at his disposal with other big guns back in action.<\/p>\n Quick GuideAustralia team to face EnglandShow<\/p>\n Kellaway; Jorgensen, Suaalii, Paisami, Potter; Edmed, J Gordon; Bell, Pollard, Tupou, Frost, Williams, Valetini, McReight, Wilson (capt). Replacements Nasser, Robertson, Alaalatoa, Salakaia-Loto, Champion de Crespigny, Lonergan, Stewart, Daugunu.<\/p>\n Thank you for your feedback.<\/p>\n Tighthead prop Taniela Tupou is back in the starting side for the first time since the first Bledisloe Cup Test in Auckland, while the captain Harry Wilson is in the No 8 jersey again, making up a familiar powerful back row with Rob Valetini and Fraser McReight. Waratahs teammates Jake Gordon and Edmed start in the halves for the third straight Test, while Hunter Paisami will link up in midfield with Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, back at the scene of his remarkable union debut last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n The latest rugby union news and analysis, plus all the week’s action reviewed<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Max Jorgensen, the last-gasp hero that day with his winning try, features again, while Harry Potter is asked to contribute his bit of magic on the other wing.<\/p>\n Lukhan Salakaia-Loto has recovered from a rib complaint and will cover at lock, while Nick Champion de Crespigny, the captain against Japan, is a back-row replacement. \u201cThe coaches have tried to balance this year\u2019s tough schedule in terms of Test matches and travel, so it was great to freshen a few players up last week and we hope that allows the group to be really competitive on Saturday,\u201d said Schmidt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tane Edmed will take the Wallabies\u2019 playmaking reins again against England as Carter Gordon\u2019s eagerly awaited return to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}