{"id":587276,"date":"2025-11-22T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587276\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:38:18","slug":"wallabies-finish-off-2025-with-blockbuster-france-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587276\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies finish off 2025 with blockbuster France Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">LIVE: The Wallabies will be out to finish their season on a high as they take on France at Stade de France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Joe Schmidt&#8217;s side welcome back Taniela Tupou and Dylan Pietsch to the starting side after they missed the defeat to Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"css-tm001h\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">Watch the Wallabies take on France live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">There is extra motivation for the visitors, with Angus Bell and Len Ikitau set to play their 50th Tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">For France, they rebounded last week with a gritty win over Fiji following their defeat to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Centre Gael Fickou returns to the side in the midfield as they look to continue their winning run over the Wallabies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">FOLLOW ALL THE ACTION IN THE LIVE BLOG BELOW OR THE <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/match-centre\/3\/2025\/946482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"css-tm001h\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">MATCH CENTRE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WALLABIES v FRANCE TEAMS<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">Australia (15-1):\u00a0<\/strong>Max Jorgensen; Harry Potter, Joseph-Aukuso Sua&#8217;ali&#8217;i, Len Ikitau, Dylan Pietsch; Tane Edmed, Jake Gordon; Harry Wilson (capt), Fraser McReight, Tom Hooper; Nick Frost, Jeremy Williams; Taniela Tupou, Matt Faessler, Angus Bell<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">Replacements:\u00a0<\/strong>Josh Nasser, Aidan Ross, Allan Alaalatoa, Rob Valetini, Carlo Tizzano, Kalani Thomas, Hamish Stewart, Filipo Daugunu<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">France (15-1):\u00a0<\/strong>Thomas Ramos; Damian Penaud, Nicolas Depoortere, Gael Fickou, Louis Bielle-Biarrey; Romain Ntamack, Maxime Lucu; Gregory Alldritt (capt), Charles Ollivon, Anthony Jelonch; Emmanuel Meafou, Thibaud Flament; Regis Montagne, Julien Marchand, Jean-Baptiste Gros<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">Replacements:\u00a0<\/strong>Maxime Lamothe, Rodrigue Neti, Thomas Laclayat, Romain Taofifenua, Hugo Auradou, Oscar Jegou, Baptiste Jauneau, Kalvin Gourgues<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">Referee:<\/strong> Luke Pearce (RFU)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">Assistant Referees:<\/strong> Andrew Brace (IRFU) &amp; Craig Evans (WRU)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">TMO:<\/strong> Marius van der Westhuizen (SARU)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><strong class=\"css-1sifzuw\">FPRO: <\/strong>Mike Adamson (SRU)<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO WATCH WALLABIES v FRANCE IN AUSTRALIA<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Wallabies&#8217; clash with France will be shown LIVE on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Coverage will be live and ad-free on Stan Sport, scheduled to start at 6:30 am (AEDT), with kick-off slated for 7:10 am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The game will not be shown on free-to-air TV, not covered under the anti-siphoning laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVE: The Wallabies will be out to finish their season on a high as they take on France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,37485],"class_list":{"0":"post-587276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-wallabies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115594808740764283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}