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UPDATE: Family trumps Wallabies duty as Moore to miss Boks clash
By Peter Thompson
Australia hooker Stephen Moore will miss the Rugby Championship clash with South Africa as his wife is due to give birth to their third child.
The former Wallabies captain started both Bledisloe Cup defeats to New Zealand, but will not feature against the Springboks in Perth on September 9.
A fit-again Tolu Latu has been called up to replace Moore, who will remain with his wife, Courtney, in Brisbane.
Moore is expected to be back in the fold to take on Argentina in Canberra on September 16.
Michael Cheika has not many any other changes after the Wallabies came agonisingly close to a shock victory over the All Blacks last weekend.
Resurgent South Africa will head to Australia with a spring in their step following back-to-back wins over Argentina.
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Go to commentsThink we have to accept we have been on the slide for a while now.Still interesting to see the repeated media pieces about the myth of the ABs slipping-I would say slipped past tense.In part don’t we have to give credit for the improvement of other nations particularly Ireland?Isnt that good for the game?Are we beginning to feel the impact of losing the Boks from Super rugby and maybe soon TRC?I would agree we are also ran right now so will be interesting to see how we progress-assuming we do!Isnt that part of sport though to be in improvement mode?Back to the stats though I think the Boks were under 60% leading into 2019?Now with the focus on the RWC does it matter so much what you are doing between tournaments?You just get through your group(remembering the ABs qualified 2nd in 2023)and then you have 3 matches to win the thing.
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