Wallabies bolter Dylan Pietsch has moved on since his blunt omission from the Rugby World Cup squad ahead of selection for Australia A and a Barbarians tour of the UK.

National coach Eddie Jones named the 25-year-old utility for the Rugby Championship and the Bledisloe Cup itineraries in June, but Pietsch was left out of all of the ensuing four Test matches.

The proud Wiradjuri man was hoping this year to be only the 15th Indigenous player to ever line up for Australia.

"He could see the (Wallabies) cap, he could taste the cap because he's really up to that level, but really (Marika) Koroibete has kept him out," Pietsch's father, Troy, a former respected prop throughout the NSW Riverina, told National Indigenous Times.

"If he got his cap and didn't get in the (World Cup) squad, he probably would not be as tense, like, he nearly got it, but didn't get to this next level to most likely get, at least, a cap to face Georgia or Portugal.

"Dylan's really disappointed because he done all of the hard yards, but after talking to Eddie, and he spoke to the Tahs' coach, it has sort of made him focus on the goal of the tour in Europe."

Insight from the 49-year-old Wiradjuri Elder from the Narrandera community on hearing the Wallabies coach's final decision that his son returned home from Sydney and headed back onto country to be with family.

He took reflection and grounding in a spiritual and physical cleansing on a riverbank of the Murrumbidgee River after engaging in a customary cultural smoke before his flight on Saturday to Europe.

Pietsch was overlooked in favour of 19-year-old prodigy Max Jorgenson, who is still out for three more weeks with an untested knee injury after not playing since May.

While Ben Donaldson, like Pietsch, didn't play a Test this season, he retained one of two utility spots in the World Cup squad.

"The way I looked at this, Eddie was priming Dylan for the World Cup because he said all along that he is a utility and at the World Cup you need a utility," Troy said.

"That was on the rationale that you can't bring players in once the World Cup starts, but that's no longer the case."

Jones brought Pietsch into Wallabies training camp on the Gold Coast over the rookie winger's ability to play as a cover for the loose forwards where he started his career.

Only a change from the Australian rugby sevens team – that culminated at the Tokyo Olympics – to the NSW Waratahs just last year saw the positional switch to the backs.

Should Pietsch cover for an injury from the 33-man touring party, he could well break onto the seven-man bench that includes three mandatory front rowers.

"The opportunity to play Australia A and the BaaBaas, which Eddie said that was also an opportunity as well, I think just gave him comfort and settled his disappointment," Troy said.

"I was really proud of how he carried himself through the whole process."

To console Pietsch, Jones reportedly said, 'you can be the most powerful winger in the world if you keep doing what you are doing'.

That's high praise from the coach of past Australian, Japanese and English World Cup teams before returning for a second stint this year with the Wallabies.

"Dylan is pretty strong, he's fast, but you know he's still learning the craft," Troy said.

A group of Australian coaches including Laurie Fisher and Nathan Grey will be taking charge of the Barbarians after Australia A plays Portugal in a one-off international.

Pietsch is one of the 15 Australians not named for the World Cup in a 24-man shadow group that will join several fringe All Blacks and more from Japan that are invited to play for the touring BaaBaas roadshow.

Three confirmed matches against British clubs Bristol, Scarlets and Harlequins will be a last-gasp opportunity for the Leeton Phantoms junior to stand out in front of Jones.

"I know what he's like – you're not seeing his 100 per cent until you get him out on the paddock," Troy said.

"He felt that he needed to be there to show his worth and he didn't get an opportunity (in Tests) to do that."