{"id":45507,"date":"2025-08-05T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45507\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:04:07","slug":"wallabies-australia-scrap-giteaus-law-to-open-doors-to-overseas-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45507\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies: Australia scrap ‘Giteau’s Law’ to open doors to overseas stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

“But we’ve also made a choice that we select domestically if the players are of equal calibre, it’s important that we invest in our premier competition in Australia.”<\/p>\n

The Wallabies, who compete for domestic talent with Aussie Rules and rugby league clubs,<\/a> have struggled for depth and consistency in recent years – sliding to sixth in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

The two-time world champions suffered a pool-stage exit at the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.<\/p>\n

Until 2015, Australia had a blanket ban on overseas-based players representing the Wallabies.<\/p>\n

However, with the likes of playmaker Matt Giteau, wing Drew Mitchell and prop Sekope Kepu lured abroad by big contracts, ‘Giteau’s Law’ was introduced to allow a set number of overseas players – who had served time in Super Rugby and the national team – to still be picked.<\/p>\n

The law has been further relaxed in recent years, with players with a commitment to return to Australian rugby excluded from the overseas quota.<\/p>\n

Centre Len Ikitau and prop Angus Bell’s forthcoming season-long sabbatical stints at Exeter and Ulster are such moves.<\/p>\n

However, Gleeson was reportedly excluded from a Wallabies training camp, external<\/a> at the start of this year after news of his impending move to France became public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“But we’ve also made a choice that we select domestically if the players are of equal calibre, it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-45507","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\/45507","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=45507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}