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Kurtley Beale set for Western Force debut in crunch Crusaders clash

Kurtley Beale poses during a Western Force Super Rugby media opportunity at Force HQ on April 11, 2024 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Wallabies veteran Kurtley Beale will debut for the Force on Saturday evening when they take on the Crusaders in a crucial Super Rugby Pacific clash out west at Perth’s HBF Park.

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Beale, 35, signed a short-term deal with the Western Force earlier this month that will keep the 95-Test Wallaby at the club until the end of this season.

The 2011 John Eales Medallist has experience in a number of positions across the backline including fly-half and fullback, but has been named to wear the No. 15 jersey in round nine.

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    Beale will start the match at fullback while Australia international Ben Donaldson retains his hold on the starting spot at first five.

    Argentina international Santiago Medrano returns to the First XV at tighthead prop, and the inclusion of Will Harrison is the only other change to the Force’s starting side.

    Ryan Coxon, Tom Horton and Medrano are the starting front rowers, while former Wallaby Sam Carter joins former Maori All Blacks lock Thomas Franklin in a talented second row.

    Will Harrison, Carlo Tizzano and former Hurricane Reed Prinsep round out the forwards.

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    Nic White will captain the side from halfback this week, with Ben Donaldson joining the Wallabies veteran in the halves. Hamish Stewart and Sam Spink will line up in the midfield.

    Chase Tiatia will start on one wing with Bayley Kuenzle on the other, and then there’s Beale out the back.

    This clash between the two bottom sides on the Super Rugby Pacific ladder will get underway at 5:35 pm WST on Saturday.

    Western Force to take on Crusaders

    1. Ryan Coxon
    2. Tom Horton
    3. Santiago Medrano
    4. Sam Carter
    5. Thomas Franklin
    6. Will Harris
    7. Carlo Tizzano
    8. Reed Prinsep
    9. Nic White (c)
    10. Ben Donaldson
    11. Chase Tiatia
    12. Hamish Stewart
    13. Sam Spink
    14. Bayley Kuenzle
    15. Kurtley Beale

    Replacements

    1. Ben Funnell
    2. Marley Pearce
    3. Tiaan Tauakipulu
    4. Izack Rodda
    5. Michael Wells
    6. Isaak Fines-Leleiwasa
    7. Max Burey
    8. Henry O’Donnell

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    Ed the Duck 4 minutes ago
    'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

    No I don’t. Point me to any discontent from the French about this? Sure the players have understandably said they’d love to go but that’s the sum total of it on the NH side. Everyone understands the decision making dynamic and the factors driving it. As you’ve already conceded above, NZR were also aware of exactly what was coming.

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    BC 5 minutes ago
    Morgane Bourgeois’ Women's Six Nations notebook: The first edition

    Interesting comment from Pauline Bourdon that France would have lost that match at WXV1. Does that mean that France have recovered their mojo and are once again potential worldbeaters?

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    Ed the Duck 8 minutes ago
    'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

    Cooperation would be an interesting description of that relationship, the power sits with the money and that’s the club owners.

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    Ed the Duck 13 minutes ago
    'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

    Ok, so you tell me why the top 20 French players will be rested for this tour. Explain what the context is and what the decision making process of all the key parties was?

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    AS 22 minutes ago
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    CV 2 hours ago
    'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

    You can’t suddenly have a national club game in NZ. Still, our model in NZ is too expensive to run. 26 provincial unions, a Maori union a school union and probably a university union too, all held up by NZR if they make a loss, who would be in dire straits without the Silver Lake money themselves NZR contracts and pays our SR players… And one team has to bring most of the cash in by playing 13 or 14 tests a season. We can’t keep going like that.

    French club money hasn’t done much for their test sides because their clubs never cared much for the national team. They got foreign players in all the time (at the expense of home grown players) until they were forced by the FFR to select 15 home grown players for the matchday 23 in 2017. Only then they started to invest in academies. France have been in every U20 WC final since 2019 and only lost one. And the FFR and clubs actually started to work together, which resulted in France sending development sides on their July tours for years now. It’s only just started. French rugby is a beast and it’s awake now.

    Clubs in Europe are there for themselves, in every sport. Not for the national team. That’s the union’s or federation’s job. EPL clubs don’t care much about the FA either. Most only field 2 or 3 Englsh players every game.

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    CV 3 hours ago
    'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

    I think we’ll find out in a few months. France will be competitive. Clubs don’t run players into the ground like they used and rest them more. Last weekend, Toulouse rested their test players against Bordeaux. No Ntamack, Mauvaka, Kinghorn, Capuozzo…. Bordeaux played LBB and Penaud, but took them off once they had a good lead.

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    CV 4 hours ago
    'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

    A strong comp has the best players in it and they’re from everywhere. That doesn’t mean you win a WC… Based on your logic, England or Spain should win every FIFA WC and the US every basketball WC. They don’t. In latest FIFA WC final, only two players that came on the park, played in their domestic league (two Frenchmen), the others didn’t.

    5 out of 10 RWCs were won by teams with most of their players in SR, I would even argue 4 out of 10. For the first three SR did not exist, England won one, and of the last two SA won, they had their best players based outside SR with their 2019 win and weren’t even in SR for the last one.

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    J Marc 4 hours ago
    'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

    Hum, maybe after answering every day to the same questions, players say what the journo wish to hear….

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    Rodrigo N 4 hours ago
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    GP 6 hours ago
    Ioane Moananu didn't join the Crusaders 'to wait around'

    I will. I have heard a few people mention him.

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