The clock is ticking and Wednesday this week marked 200 days to go to one of the biggest non-Test matches on next year's British & Irish Lions tour to Australia, against the HSBC Waratahs.
Wallabies newcomer Brendan McKibbin will start on the bench for this weekend’s Test match.
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Brendan McKibbin has been called up by the Wallabies ahead of this weekend’s match against Wales in Cardiff.
Amid this week’s arduous pre-season preparations, HSBC Waratahs players Jed Holloway and Bernard Foley made a flying visit to the Far North Coast, in an attempt to make union converts of the region’s league-mad youngsters.
Berrick Barnes returns to the starting lineup this weekend and Michael Hooper retains the No. 7 jersey as the Wallabies take on England at Twickenham Stadium for the Cook Cup.
Get down to Coogee Beach on Saturday November 24 and meet the new generation of HSBC Waratahs players, together with coach Michael Cheika and the ever-popular Tah Man.
Prop Jeremy Tilse trumped five of his team mates today, signing up nine new members in just one hour today!
It’s not quite the Test debut he had hoped for but Paddy Ryan can now count himself a Wallaby.
That is head coach Michael Cheika’s impassioned pledge to HSBC Waratahs fans.
Michael Cheika is confident that the eight HSBC Waratahs forwards in the Wallabies’ starting line up will make their state and country proud when they take on France in the Trophée des Bicentenaries Test in Paris on Sunday morning, live on Fox Sports.