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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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I said ‘essentially test match level’. Let me use slightly different language. So you address the point I was trying to make.
It’s a perfect example of a higher level game occurring during a regular season.
An ANZAC rugby test is the exact same concept. A higher level match in the middle of the Super Rugby season.
If the NRL can make three State of Origin games work in the NRL season. Rugby Australia and the NZRU. Can make one ANZAC test work in the Super Rugby season.
Go to commentsNeither is that fact true. Only 3 non NZ players are allowed in each squad.
Thats true but also deceptive JW. As an example NZ provided 39 NZ Born rugby players to Tonga and Samoa at the last WC. Yes teams are only 3 outsiders per SR team, but not one of those 39 players came under that law because they are NZers, so therefore not non-NZers, and they could play for any NZ SR side.
I dont know how they could stop that without further eligibility laws or maybe contractually.
However…. The last thing we really need is for PI rugby to die…..
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