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The 2006 Australian national rugby union team tour to Europe, known in Australia as the 2006 Wallabies Spring Tour, is part of a 2006 end-of-year rugby test series

2006 end-of-year rugby test series

The 2006 end of year tests, also known as the 2006 Autumn Internationals, refers to several international rugby union matches that took place during November 2006 principally between touring teams from the southern hemisphere—, , New Zealand, Pacific Islands and —and one or more teams from the Six...

and takes place in November 2006. The tour consist of test match

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

es against Wales

Wales national rugby union team

The Wales national rugby union team represent Wales in international rugby union tournaments. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 24 times outright, second only to England with...

, Italy

Italy national rugby union team

The Italy national rugby union team represent the nation of Italy in the sport of rugby union. The team is also known as the Azzurri . Italy have been playing international rugby since the late 1920s, and since 2000 compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland,...

, Ireland

Ireland national rugby union team

The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship and every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions The Ireland national rugby union...

and Scotland

Scotland national rugby union team

The Scotland national rugby union team represent Scotland in international rugby union. Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The Scotland rugby union team is currently ranked eighth in the IRB World Rankings as of 19 September 2011...

as well as midweek games against Ireland A

Ireland A national rugby union team

The Ireland Wolfhounds are the second national rugby union team behind the Irish national side. They have previously competed in the Churchill Cup together with the England Saxons and the full national teams of Canada and the United States as well as selection of other nations' 1st, 2nd and 3rd...

, Scotland A

Scotland A national rugby union team

The Scotland A team are the second national rugby union team behind the Scottish national side.-History:Scotland's status as one of the leading rugby nations in the Northern Hemisphere, made the SRU to field a second team, first known as Scotland XV, and currently as Scotland A, which can play at...

and Welsh team, the Ospreys.

The tour is the first time this decade that Captain George Gregan

George Gregan

George Musarurwa Gregan AM is an Australian rugby union halfback who has made more appearances for his national team than any other player in the sport's history....

will miss out on a Wallabies tour opting to miss in preparation ahead of the 2007 Rugby World Cup

2007 Rugby World Cup

The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 20 October. France won the hosting rights in 2003,...

with this Stirling Mortlock was named captain but missed out on the opening match due to injury. Phil Waugh

Phil Waugh

Phillip Waugh is an Australian rugby union player, widely regarded as one of the world's leading flankers.His career as a player began at the Shore School, Captaining the school's team in 1997...

was subsequently named as captain.

On the 11th of October Wallabies halfback Sam Cordingley

Sam Cordingley

Sam Cordingley is an Australian rugby union footballer. He plays for the Melbourne Rebels in the international Super Rugby competition. He was educated at the St Patrick's Marist school, Dundas.-Career:...

announced that he would pull out of the tour to rest a nagging foot injury leaving Australia without its top two halfbacks. Another injury concern for the Wallabies is the injury to Prop Greg Holmes who announced that he was unable to tour due to a neck injury he sustained during training and with this announcement Brumbies prop Nic Henderson was called into the squad.

Squad

Props

Nic Henderson
Nic Henderson
Nic Henderson , is an Australian rugby union player. He has moved from the CA Brumbies to the Melbourne Rebels for the 2011 season. He also has three test caps.-External links:* *...
Rodney Blake
Rodney Blake
Rodney Blake is a professional Australian rugby union footballer. He plays prop for the Melbourne Rebels. He previously played for Bayonne in France. He is sometimes referred to as Rodzilla. His father Paul is a former Otago flanker. In June 2006, Blake made his debut for the Wallabies.- Career...
Guy Shepherdson
Guy Shepherdson
Guy Shepherdson is an Australian rugby union footballer.His usual position is at tight-head prop...
Al Baxter
Al Baxter
Al Baxter is an Australian rugby union player. He currently plays for the Waratahs in the Super 14. He played in the 2003 and 2007 Rugby World Cups, but was not selected for the 2011 squad.-Career:...
Benn Robinson
Benn Robinson
Benn Robinson is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the New South Wales Waratahs in the international Super Rugby competition.-Career:...

Hookers

Brendan Cannon
Brendan Cannon
Brendan Cannon is a former Australian rugby union footballer who played for the national team, The Wallabies and three Australian teams in the Super 12 and Super 14 competitions....
Tatafu Polota-Nau
Tatafu Polota-Nau
- Biography :At 25 years of age, Polota-Nau achieved the rare feat of Test selection before playing a match at Super 14 level. His performances in his Test debut against England at Twickenham and in the win over Ireland at Lansdowne Road were impressive.v Signed to the New South Wales Waratahs...
Tai McIsaac
Tai McIsaac
Tai McIsaac is an Australian rugby union footballer. His usual position is hooker, and he currently plays for the Western Force in the Super 14 competition.-Career:...

(also Prop)
Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore (rugby player)
Stephen Moore is an Australian rugby union footballer. Born in Saudi Arabia to Irish parents, Stephen and his family moved back to Tuam, Galway, Ireland in the mid-eighties before they emigrated to Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia in 1988...

Locks

Nathan Sharpe
Nathan Sharpe
Nathan Sharpe is an Australian rugby union player. He plays lock and is the captain of the Western Force.-Early career:...
James Horwill
James Horwill
James Horwill is an Australian rugby union player, a national and provincial representative Lock forward. He captained the Queensland Reds to a season victory in the 2011 in the Super 15 competition, his sixth season played at that level and debuted as Wallaby captain in the deciding game of the...
Mitchell Chapman
Mitchell Chapman
Mitchell Chapman also Mitch, Mark, Chappo, Horse is an Australian Rugby Union player for the ACT Brumbies in the international Super 14 competition. Chapman usually plays at the position of Blindside Flanker but can also cover the Second Row and Number 8...
Mark Chisholm
Mark Chisholm
Mark Chisholm is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Brumbies in the international Super Rugby competition...
Alister Campbell

Backrow

George Smith
George Smith (rugby player)
George Smith is an Australian rugby union player. He is a flanker for Toulon. He won 110 caps for Australia before retiring from international rugby on 5 February 2010. He made his Test debut in 2000 against France in Paris and he is the most capped Wallaby forward, and the most capped flanker in...
Rocky Elsom
Rocky Elsom
Rocky Elsom is a former captain of the Australia national rugby union team. Raised in Noosa on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Elsom is one of Australia's most decorated Rugby players. Elsom has played over 50 times for Australia and has over 80 Super rugby caps with the Waratahs 2003–08 and the...

(also Lock)
Phil Waugh
Phil Waugh
Phillip Waugh is an Australian rugby union player, widely regarded as one of the world's leading flankers.His career as a player began at the Shore School, Captaining the school's team in 1997...

Vice Captain
Wycliff Palu
Wycliff Palu
Wycliff Palu is an Australian rugby union footballer of Tongan descent. He plays for the New South Wales Waratahs in the international Super Rugby competition...
David Lyons
David Lyons
David Lyons plays Number Eight for the Wallabies.-Playing career:From his debut in 2000 Lyons played 83 consecutive games for Waratahs, a record for Australian players. His run ended when a knee injury forced him to miss the start of the 2007 season...
Scott Fava
Scott Fava
Scott Fava is a retired Australian rugby union footballer.-Super 14:Scott Fava began his Super Rugby career with the Queensland Reds in 1999, playing for three seasons before moving on to the ACT Brumbies...
Stephen Hoiles
Stephen Hoiles
Stephen Hoiles is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Brumbies in the international Super 14 competition. Hoiles previously played for the New South Wales Waratahs. He has also played for the national team, the Wallabies.-Career:...

Scrumhalves

Josh Valentine
Josh Valentine
Josh Valentine is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the ACT Brumbies in the international Super 14 competition. Valentine's usual position is at scrum half...
Brett Sheehan
Brett Sheehan
Brett Sheehan is an Australian rugby union footballer. He plays for the New South Wales Waratahs in the Super 14 tournament. He was also included in Australia's squad for matches during the 2006 Tri Nations Series....

Flyhalves

Stephen Larkham
Stephen Larkham
Stephen Larkham is an Australian rugby union footballer currently playing for the Ricoh Black Rams in Japan. He is best known for his career with the Brumbies in Super Rugby, for whom he played from the inception of the professional Super 12 in 1996 through 2007, and his long tenure with the...

(also Centre) Vice Captain
Mat Rogers
Mat Rogers
Matthew S. "Mat" Rogers is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He also played rugby union at the highest levels, becoming a dual-code international. The son of the late Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks legend and CEO Steve Rogers, Mat played for the Sharks...

(also Centre, Wing and Fullback)
Gene Fairbanks
Gene Fairbanks
Gene Fairbanks is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Brumbies in the international Super 14 competition. His usual position is at inside centre or fly-half.-Career:...

(also Centre)

Centres

Matt Giteau
Matt Giteau
Matthew Giteau is an Australian rugby union footballer, a former international who now plays for the French Top 14 side Toulon. He attended St Edmund's College, Canberra, which has produced other Wallabies including George Gregan, Matt Henjak and the former rugby league star and now coach Ricky...

(also Scrumhalf and Flyhalf)
Stirling Mortlock
Stirling Mortlock
Stirling Austin Mortlock is an Australian professional rugby union player. He has scored over 1,000 points in Super Rugby, and nearly 500 test points for the Wallabies. Mortlock is a former Wallaby and Brumbies captain, and the current captain of the Melbourne Rebels.-Early life:Mortlock began...

Captain
Adam Ashley-Cooper
Adam Ashley-Cooper
Adam Ashley-Cooper is an Australian rugby union footballer. He he has signed with the NSW Waratahs in the international Super Rugby competition for 2012 and also plays for Australia. He was educated at the Berkeley Vale High School and played his junior rugby for Ourimbah on the NSW Central Coast...

(also Fullback)
Morgan Turinui
Morgan Turinui
Morgan Turinui is an Australian rugby union footballer who currently plays for French rugby side Stade Francais.-Early life:...

(also Wing, Flyhalf and Flanker)

Wings

Mark Gerrard
Mark Gerrard
Mark Gerrard is an Australian professional rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Melbourne Rebels in Super Rugby competition. In 2011 he was one of 10 players nominated to become the competition's Super Rugby player of the year....

(also Centre, Flyhalf and Fullback)
Lote Tuqiri (also Centre)
Clyde Rathbone
Clyde Rathbone
Clyde Rathbone , nicknamed "Rattlebones", is an Australian rugby union player. He previously played for the Brumbies in Super 14 and internationally for Australia...

(also Centre)
Cameron Shepherd
Cameron Shepherd
Cameron Shepherd is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Western Force in the international Super 14 competition. His usual position is at fullback or wing.-Biography:...

(also Fullback)

Fullbacks

Chris Latham
Chris Latham (rugby player)
Chris Latham is an Australian rugby union player, who played fullback for the Worcester Warriors, following a long career with the Queensland Reds and Australia....

Vice Captain
Drew Mitchell
Drew Mitchell
Drew Alan Mitchell is an Australian rugby union player. He usually plays on the wing or as fullback. Up to the 2006 season he played for the Queensland Reds. He played for the Western Force for the 2007–2009 Super 14 seasons. In 2010 he is playing for the New South Wales Waratahs franchise...

(also Wing)
Scott Staniforth
Scott Staniforth
Scott Nicholas Gelling Staniforth is an Australian rugby union footballer.- Career :Returning to Australia after two years with London Irish, Scott Staniforth was the last player to sign with the Western Force and has played in every match bar one for the new team...

(also Centre and Wing)

Injured Players

Dan Vickerman Injured in Test against Wales. Replaced by Mitchell Chapman
Mitchell Chapman
Mitchell Chapman also Mitch, Mark, Chappo, Horse is an Australian Rugby Union player for the ACT Brumbies in the international Super 14 competition. Chapman usually plays at the position of Blindside Flanker but can also cover the Second Row and Number 8...
Hugh McMeniman
Hugh McMeniman
Hugh McMeniman is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Kubota in Japan and has played for Australia. His favoured position is blindside flanker but he can also play lock.-Career:...

Injured in Match against Ospreys. Replaced by Scott Fava
Scott Fava
Scott Fava is a retired Australian rugby union footballer.-Super 14:Scott Fava began his Super Rugby career with the Queensland Reds in 1999, playing for three seasons before moving on to the ACT Brumbies...
Greg Holmes
Greg Holmes
Greg Holmes is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Queensland Reds in the international Super 14 competition and has played for Australia. His usual position is at prop.-Career:...

Injured in Pre Tour Training. Replaced by Nic Henderson
Nic Henderson
Nic Henderson , is an Australian rugby union player. He has moved from the CA Brumbies to the Melbourne Rebels for the 2011 season. He also has three test caps.-External links:* *...
Sam Cordingley
Sam Cordingley
Sam Cordingley is an Australian rugby union footballer. He plays for the Melbourne Rebels in the international Super Rugby competition. He was educated at the St Patrick's Marist school, Dundas.-Career:...

Injured in Pre Tour Training. Replaced by Josh Valentine
Josh Valentine
Josh Valentine is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the ACT Brumbies in the international Super 14 competition. Valentine's usual position is at scrum half...
George Gregan
George Gregan
George Musarurwa Gregan AM is an Australian rugby union halfback who has made more appearances for his national team than any other player in the sport's history....

Opted not to tour to Prepare for The World Cup
2007 Rugby World Cup
The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 20 October. France won the hosting rights in 2003,...

. Not included in original squad

Line Ups

Australia A

Ospreys

1. Nic Henderson
2. Tatafu Polota-Nau
3. Guy Shepherdson
4. Al Campbell
5. James Horwill
6. Hugh McMeniman
7. George Smith (C)
8. David Lyons
9. Brett Sheehan
10. Mark Gerrard
11. Morgan Turinui
12. Gene Fairbanks
13. Adam Ashley-Cooper
14. Scott Staniforth
15. Cameron Shepherd
16. Stephen Moore
17. Benn Robinson
18. Mark Chisholm
19. Stephen Hoiles
20. Josh Valentine
21. Mat Rogers
22. Clyde Rathbone

Ireland A

1. Benn Robinson
2. Tai McIsaac
3. Rodney Blake
4. Al Campbell (C)
5. James Horwill
6. Scott Fava
7. Stephen Hoiles
8. David Lyons
9. Brett Sheehan
10. Mark Gerrard
11. Drew Mitchell
12. Scott Staniforth
13. Morgan Turinui
14. Adam Ashley-Cooper
15. Cameron Shepherd
16. Tatafu Polota-Nau
17. Nic Henderson
18. Mitchell Chapman
19. George Smith
20. Josh Valentine
21. Gene Fairbanks
22. Clyde Rathbone

Scotland A

1. Nic Henderson
2. Tatafu Polota-Nau
3. Rodney Blake
4. James Horwill
5. Mitchell Chapman
6. Scott Fava
7. Stephen Hoiles
8. David Lyons
9. Brett Sheehan
10. Mat Rogers
11. Drew Mitchell
12. Gene Fairbanks
13. Morgan Turinui (C)
14. Adam Ashley-Cooper
15. Cameron Shepherd
16. Tai McIsaac
17. Al Baxter
18. Mark Chisholm
19. Wycliff Palu
20. Josh Valentine
21. Mark Gerrard
22. Clyde Rathbone

The Wallabies

Wales

1. Al Baxter
2. Tai McIssac
3. Rodney Blake
4. Nathan Sharpe
5. Dan Vickerman
6. Rocky Elsom
7. Phil Waugh (C)
8. Wycliff Palu
9. Matt Giteau
10. Matt Rogers
11. Cameron Shepherd
12. Stephen Larkham
13. Lote Tuqiri
14. Clyde Rathbone
15. Chris Latham
16. Brendan Cannon
17. Benn Robinson
18. Mark Chisholm
19. Stephen Hoiles
20. Josh Valentine
21. Mark Gerrard
22. Adam Ashley-Cooper

Italy

1. Al Baxter
2. Brendan Cannon
3. Guy Shepherdson
4. Nathan Sharpe
5. Mark Chisholm
6. Rocky Eslom
7. George Smith
8. Wycliff Palu
9. Matt Giteau
10. Matt Rogers
11. Lote Tuqiri
12. Stephen Larkham
13. Stirling Mortlock (C)
14. Clyde Rathbone
15. Chris Latham
16. Stephen Moore
17. Nic Henderson
18. Alistar Campbell
19. Stephen Hoiles
20. Josh Valentine
21. Mark Gerrard
22. Cameron Shepherd

Ireland

1. Al Baxter
2. Tai McIssac
3. Guy Shepherdson
4. Nathan Sharpe
5. Mark Chisholm
6. Rocky Elsom
7. Phil Waugh
8. Wycliff Palu
9. Matt Giteau
10. Stephen Larkham
11. Mark Gerrard
12. Stirling Mortlock (C)
13. Lote Tuqiri
14. Clyde Rathbone
15. Chris Latham
16. Stephen Moore
17. Benn Robinson
18. Alistar Campbell
19. George Smith
20. Josh Valentine
21. Matt Rogers
22. Scott Staniforth

Scotland

1. Benn Robinson
2. Stephen Moore
3. Guy Shepherdson
4. Nathan Sharpe
5. Alistar Campbell
6. Rocky Elsom
7. George Smith
8. David Lyons
9. Matt Giteau
10. Stephen Larkham
11. Lote Tuqiri
12. Scott Staniforth
13. Stirling Mortlock (C)
14. Mark Gerrard
15. Chris Latham
16. Tatafu Polota-Nau
17. Al Baxter
18. Mark Chisholm
19. Phil Waugh
20. Wycliff Palu
21. Josh Valentine
22. Mat Rogers

'A' games

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Tests

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External links

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Squad

Line Ups

'A' games

Tests

See also

External links