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  Home Tests 2013 – Reduced Programme

With the withdrawal of South Africa from their planned tour to Australia this year, the home test programme for the Australian Schoolboys Rugby team has been reduced to just two games.

These two games –with New Zealand and Fiji—will occur in a significantly reduced time frame—avoiding school term time for most states.

There will two games also for the Australia A team, also against NZ and Fiji.

The dates for these games are set out below.

The games for Australia and Australia A will also function as the final selection games for the Australian Schoolboys  squad of 27 to tour the UK and Ireland, commencing in the second half of November.

This tour is one of the most anticipated events in schoolboy rugby—such tours have taken place every four years since 1973. This year will be a “grand slam” tour with Tests against England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Dates