{"id":10252,"date":"2025-07-21T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10252\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:45:11","slug":"tabuai-fidow-becomes-latest-kangaroo-to-weigh-up-international-switch-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10252\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabuai-Fidow becomes latest Kangaroo to weigh up international switch – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolphins and Queensland State of Origin<\/a> star Hamiso Tabua-Fidow is considering leaving the Kangaroos for this year’s internationals.<\/p>\n

The star, who played centre, wing, and finally fullback during the 2025 State of Origin<\/a> series for Billy Slater<\/a>‘s victorious Maroons<\/a> side is able to represent both Australia<\/a> and Samoa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite playing for the Kangaroos in 2024 during the Pacific Championships, the star is now one of three players reportedly considering switching to play for Samoa<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

Tabuai-Fidow’s apparently consideration of a defection from the Kangaroos is joined by Payne Haas<\/a>, who has flirted with the idea of playing for Samoa<\/a> previously, and Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a>, who suffered a knee injury on Sunday afternoon but should be right to play for one of the two countries at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Tabuai-Fidow has played one Test<\/a> for Samoa<\/a> – at the 2022 Rugby League World Cup<\/a> – previously, while Fa’asuamaleaui played a Test<\/a> for Samoa<\/a> in 2019. Haas is yet to represent the nation.<\/p>\n

It comes as the Kangaroos face their first Ashes tour to England<\/a> in two decades, while Samoa<\/a> will play in the top tier of the Pacific Championships against New Zealand<\/a> and Tonga<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear whether the trip to England<\/a> has thrown some of the players off the idea of playing for the Kangaroos.<\/p>\n

The news will be a major headache for coach Kevin Walters<\/a>, who is set to be formally announced as the new Kangaroos’ coach this week.<\/p>\n

He will take over from Mal Meninga<\/a>, who has taken the head coaching role at the Perth Bears<\/a> and can commence recruitment from November 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolphins and Queensland State of Origin star Hamiso Tabua-Fidow is considering leaving the Kangaroos for this year’s internationals.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}