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JAMES O'Connor, Digby Ioane, Berrick Barnes and Drew Mitchell would have made handy replacements in the Wallabies backline this weekend given the astounding chop-and-change necessary to field a team at Murrayfield.
Even the in-form Matt Giteau was thrown up as a potential backline saviour against the Scots.
But coach Ewen McKenzie, who has lost four starting backline players through disciplinary sanctions (Adam Ashley-Cooper and Nick Cummins), IRB suspension (Tevita Kuridrani) and a hamstring injury (Matt Toomua) in a matter of days, emphatically rejected recalling any player who abandoned the gold jersey to chase overseas cash.
"Even though they were playing for the Wallabies, they decided to leave, so in my mind, they've chosen something else above being a Wallaby," McKenzie said.
Matt Giteau scores a try for his French club Toulon. Source: AFP
"So I don't think about them. It doesn't mean I don't talk to them but they're not in the plans.
"There is a distinct criteria; you have to play Super Rugby, and then there's whether, in my mind, they were incumbent Wallabies when they decided to leave.
"A lot of these guys made their decision at the start of the year, they were incumbent Wallabies the year before but they still chose to go.
"It says they were interested in other things at that point in time."
James O'Connor has joined English club London Irish. Source: Getty Images
That's not to say he didn't consider drafting in any European-based Australians; backrower Peter Kimlin and prop Dan Palmer would have been contacted had the same problem occurred in McKenzie's forward pack, which remains intact from last weekend.
"They chose to go in an environment where they weren't required, a lot of the other guys were already contracted Wallabies when they made the decision to leave," McKenzie said.
Digby Ioane left Australia to join Stade Francais in Paris. Source: AP
"Peter Kimlin's different, he wanted to be a Wallaby but nobody showed any interest for three years so he made a decision. Then I was interested, but it was too late, he'd already made the decision (to sign with Grenoble).
"Probably Dan Palmer (also Grenoble) falls into that category, but they've both been injured."
O'Connor is playing in the English competition with London Irish, while Ioane, Giteau and Mitchell are in France. Barnes is playing in Japan.
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