Following the announcement of Joe Schmidt’s Wallabies squad to take on the British and Irish Lions, here are our winners and losers. The Wallabies boss has stuck to a largely unchanged squad for the once-every-12-years series,

James O’Connor wasn’t answering his phone calls, and the Wallabies squad for the British & Irish Lions series was to be announced in an hour. As Australia’s coach dialled the number again from the team’s hotel lobby, he received a tap on the shoulder from James Slipper. “The bloke you’re after is outside,” Slipper revealed.

Joe Schmidt says that it was not a spur-of-the-moment decision to recall James O'Connor to the Wallabies squad after the injury to Noah Lolesio.

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Joe Schmidt's preparations for the British & Irish Lions tour appear on shaky ground with the loss of first-choice flyhalf Noah Lolesio deepening the sense of pessimism surrounding the Wallabies following their lacklustre showing against Fiji.

With just 20 caps of Test experience between Ben Donaldson and Tom Lynagh, Joe Schmidt had no other choice but to bring James O'Connor into his Wallabies squad.

It took a chance encounter on the streets of Brisbane on Friday for James O'Connor to find out he was in the Wallabies