David Pocock will make an announcement about his Australian rugby future on Tuesday morning as the champion openside flanker prepares to call time on his Wallabies career.
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The ACT Brumbies and Wallabies star has struggled to overcome a calf injury this year and has played just three Super Rugby games.
Brumbies coach Dan McKellar conceded last week Pocock's future was in the air given Pocock hasn't played a game since March.
The 31-year-old two-time John Eales Medal winner was always expected to leave Australian rugby at the end of this World Cup cycle.
The Brumbies will have a press conference on Tuesday morning to detail plans for the immediate future and whether he will play on after the World Cup.
Pocock tore his calf at a pre-season Wallabies camp, raising question marks about how hard Australia's top players were pushed so early in a World Cup year.
He was concussed in his first game of the season and then played just two more before re-injuring his calf against the Melbourne Rebels.
Pocock has played 43 games for the Brumbies since leaving the Western Force at the end of 2012 to move to Canberra.
He has played 77 Tests for Australia and is a huge part of Wallabies coach Michael Cheika's plans to win the World Cup in Japan later this year.
"The Brumbies medical staff and the Wallabies medical staff will have a chat over the next few days and we'll come to some sort of clarity there around where he heads over the next few weeks," McKellar said last week.
Asked if the injury would end Pocock's season, McKellar said: "It's all the things we've got to look at to see whether he plays Super Rugby or whether he now puts his attention towards the World Cup. Those are things we've got to discuss between the Brumbies and the Wallabies."
Pocock had knee reconstructions in 2013 and 2014, limiting him to just a handful of games in his first two years in Canberra.