Connolly stands by players' dismissals

Australia coach John Connolly has defended his decision to send home four players from a Wallabies training camp earlier this week for failing fitness tests.

Waratahs trio Lote Tuqiri, Morgan Turinui and Tatafu Polota-Nau, and Brumbies winger Mark Gerarrd, were sent home on the first morning of the camp after failing to pass a running endurance exercise.