A rookie scrumhalf and some welcome international reinforcements are set to headline the Wallabies' spring tour squad.
Coach Les Kiss will on Friday name his group that heads to Europe for Tests next month against England, Scotland, Wales and another yet-to-be-determined side in the maiden Nations Championship finals weekend.
The Wallabies had gone six Tests undefeated, including Kiss's first five in charge, before back-to-back Bledisloe Cup hidings opened old wounds.
Taniela Tupou and Tom Hooper, who play club rugby in France and England respectively, performed crucial bench roles in the Wallabies' defeat of back-to-back World Cup champions South Africa.
But Australia were without the pair's services against New Zealand, given the All Blacks Tests fell outside of World Rugby's global player release period.
It exposed the Wallabies' bench depth and, after a one-sided second half in Auckland, forced Kiss to shift prop Angus Bell to the reserves for the Sydney rematch.
That contest was over inside 30 minutes, before Bell got on the field.
Kiss will have access to his international arsenal though for the four-Test tour that begins in London on November 9.
He's also expected to name uncapped No.9 Teddy Wilson in the squad, replacing Tate McDermott who's understood to be unavailable as he awaits the birth of his first child.
Impressive displays from Ryan Lonergan have seen him assume custody of the Wallabies' No.9 jersey.
But NSW Waratahs half Wilson - unrelated to current captain Harry but son of former Wallabies World Cup winner David - will push for a bench role that remains up for grabs ahead of next year's World Cup.
Flyhalf Carter Gordon, on the comeback from a broken leg suffered in Argentina, is expected to be named after training with the squad in Sydney last week.
In Gordon's absence Ben Donaldson wore the No.10, until his injury allowed Declan Meredith a shot in Sydney, with Harry McLaughlin-Phillips debuting off the bench.
Kiss said ahead of the Sydney Test that he had been in conversation with veteran playmaker Kurtley Beale who, like fellow experienced halves James O'Connor and Bernard Foley, was a known quantity who remained in the frame ahead of the World Cup.
