The British and Irish Lions are in line to take on a team made up of players with indigenous Australian and Pacific Islands heritage on their 2025 tour Down Under.
Dylan Pietsch, a Wiradjuri Burray man and Australia international, started in the Wallabies' 42-37 win over England this monthThe British and Irish Lions are in line to take on a team made up of players with indigenous Australian and Pacific Islands heritage as part of their tour of Australia next summer.
Rugby Australia chief executive Phil Waugh said he hoped to attract box-office names for the fixture."So it was a matter of how do we will pull those ideas together to make a very special game in a massive tour? Veteran back Kurtley Beale, who played against the Lions in 2013 and is currently recovering from an Achilles tendon injury, Fijian-born Marika Koroibete, who missed out on Wallabies selection this autumn, and fellow wing Dylan Pietsch,Waugh has also confirmed he is pursuing New Zealand internationals who are playing their club rugby abroad, and are therefore ineligible for All Black selection, for a trans-Tasman 'Anzac' team, combining both Australian and Kiwi players,While Waugh did...
"There are conversations beginning," Waugh said. "We certainly want to get some high-profile Kiwi players, and given France are in New Zealand then, the sensible place to test some conversations would be the New Zealand players who are offshore. We are starting to engage with some clubs and players.
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