{"id":53104,"date":"2026-07-18T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/53104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:19:06","slug":"live-wallabies-farewell-coach-schmidt-with-italy-test-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/53104\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Wallabies farewell coach Schmidt with Italy Test in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Wallabies will be out to finish their time with coach Joe Schmidt on a high as they face Italy in Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Kiwi-born coach will depart following the game, having taken over in late 2023 and will be replaced by Les Kiss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of the 2026 Nations Championship live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Miles Amatosero is set for his debut off the bench, whilst Fraser McReight, Harry Potter and Brandon Paenga-Amosa all start for the first time in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Meanwhile, Italy are coming off back-to-back losses to start their Nations Championship campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">This includes defeats to New Zealand and Japan, although are hunting for three straight wins over the Wallabies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">FOLLOW ALL THE ACTION IN THE LIVE BLOG BELOW OR THE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/match-centre\/114\/2026\/949577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">MATCH CENTRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PRE GAME: WELCOME<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Welcome to Rugby.com.au&#8217;s coverage of the Wallabies&#8217; Test against Italy at HBF Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">A bumper crowd is expected, close to a sell-out, as the Aussies look to farewell coach Joe Schmidt on a high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Weather (without jinxing it) looks to be good for kick off despite reports throughout the week of rain, with a shower or two potentially hitting before the match.<\/p>\n<p>WALLABIES v ITALY TEAMS<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">WALLABIES (15-1):\u00a0\u00a0Tom Wright; Max Jorgensen, Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, Len Ikitau, Harry Potter; Declan Meredith, Ryan Lonergan; Harry Wilson (capt), Carlo Tizzano, Rob Valetini; Jeremy Williams, Josh Canham; Allan Alaalatoa, Brandon Paenga-Amosa, Angus Bell<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Billy Pollard, James Slipper, Zane Nonggorr, Miles Amatosero, Fraser McReight, Tate McDermott, Ben Donaldson, Filipo Daugunu<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">ITALY (15-1):\u00a0Lorenzo Pani; Louis Lynagh, Juan Ignacio Brex, Paolo Odogwu, Monty Ioane; Paolo Garbisi, Alessandro Garbisi; Ross Vintcent, Michele Lamaro (capt), Riccardo Favretto; Federico Ruzza, Giulio Marini; Marco Riccioni, Gianmarco Lucchesi, Muhamed Hasa<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Pablo Dimcheff, Danilo Fischetti, Ion Neculai, Andrea Zambonin, Alessandro Ortombina, Alessandro Fusco, Giacomo Da Re, Leonardo Marin<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Referee:\u00a0Christophe Ridley (England)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Assistant referees:\u00a0Karl Dickson (England) and Morn\u00e9 Ferreira (South Africa)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">TMO:\u00a0Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO WATCH WALLABIES v ITALY TONIGHT<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Wallabies&#8217; clash with Italy will be shown LIVE on Stan Sport and the Nine Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Coverage will be live on Stan Sport, scheduled to start at 5:00 pm AWST\/7:00 pm AEST, with kickoff closer to 6:10 pm\/8:10 pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The game will also be shown on free-to-air television via Channel 9, with coverage to start at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies will be out to finish their time with coach Joe Schmidt on a high as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[335,8285],"class_list":["post-53104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-perth","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}