Wallabies beef up bench for Bledisloe Cup as star faces fitness test

Les Kiss has shifted star prop Angus Bell to the bench to ensure there is no second-half fade out in Saturday’s Bledisloe Cup rematch, but there is no room for electric halfback Tate McDermott. The news came as it emerged that Carter Gordon – the Wallabies’ first-choice playmaker – will have a fitness test in the next 48 hours to determine if he will be available for the Nations Championship campaign next month. Gordon fractured his fibula during the Wallabies’ agonising 28-all draw with the Pumas in Argentina last month.