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Slipper to end career in Perth where he started
The Straits Times
|October 02, 2025
Australia’s most-capped Test player James Slipper will retire from international rugby following the final Rugby Championship clash against New Zealand on Oct 4, bringing the curtain down on a record-breaking 16-year career.
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The 36-year-old prop earned his 150th cap last week in the 33-24 defeat by the All Blacks in Auckland, becoming only the third player to reach the milestone, after Wales' Alun Wyn Jones (171) and New Zealand's Sam Whitelock (153).
Slipper will end his Wallabies career where it began — in Perth - having made his debut off the bench as a 21-year-old against England in 2010.
"Representing the Wallabies has been the single proudest achievement of my rugby career and a privilege I have never taken for granted," he said in a Rugby Australia statement on Oct 1.
"As a young kid on the Gold Coast playing backyard footy with my brothers, it was a dream to pull on the gold jersey, and to be able to say I've lived my dream for what's coming on 16 years is more than I could ever have asked for.
This story is from the October 02, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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