Wallabies suffer playmaker blow
INJURY UPDATE: The Wallabies will be without one of their most experienced playmakers for the first leg of the upcoming Nations Championship.
Australia scrumhalf Jake Gordon had surgery on a torn Achilles on Monday.
The 32-year-old went down clutching his right leg in the first half of the Waratahs’ final Super Rugby game of the season on Saturday – a 25-31 loss to Western Force in Perth.
“The Waratahs can confirm Jake Gordon successfully underwent surgery on a torn Achilles this morning,” his club said.
“The scrumhalf will be sidelined for a significant period and will miss the Wallabies’ upcoming Nations Championship campaign.”
The Wallabies start their year against Ireland in Sydney on July 4 in the inaugural Nations Championship before meeting France a week later in Brisbane, then Italy in Perth.
They will then have back-to-back tests against Japan, away on August 8, before hosting Eddie Jones’s side a week later.
Tate McDermott and Ryan Lonergan are in the running to replace Gordon, who has been Australia coach Joe Schmidt’s preferred starter.
Playmaker Kurtley Beale suffered a similar injury in June 2024, and it kept him out of the Australia team for close to a year.
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