{"id":11002,"date":"2025-07-21T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11002\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:55:10","slug":"nrl-news-2025-hamiso-tabuai-fidow-international-eligibility-kangaroos-samoa-tino-faasuamaleaui-kevin-walters-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11002\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2025 | Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow international eligibility, Kangaroos, Samoa; Tino Fa’asuamaleaui; Kevin Walters coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Walters hasn’t officially started as Kangaroos coach yet<\/a> but could already have his hands full with Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow reportedly considering his international future, according to The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tabuai-Fidow previously played for Samoa in 2022 but has since represented the Kangaroos, however he could revert back to the men in blue for the Pacific Championships.<\/p>\n

The Kangaroos will head to England for an Ashes series at the end of the season, with Walters set to be named as coach.<\/p>\n

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Tabuai-Fidow’s form for the Dolphins and Queensland would make him a certain starter for Australia.<\/p>\n

\"Hamiso<\/p>\n

Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow celebrates scoring a try in game two of the 2025 State of Origin series.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

However, he joins the likes of Tino Fa’asuamaleaui and Payne Haas who are also considering who they’ll represent.<\/p>\n

Walters is yet to be officially announced as the Kangaroos’ new coach but he is expected to sign a three-match deal.<\/p>\n

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If Tabuai-Fidow chooses to represent Samoa, Dylan Edwards would be the likely fullback with Reece Walsh also in contention.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins fullback played centre in the Pacific Championships final last year, with Xavier Coates and Zac Lomax on the wings. Tom Trbojevic was the other centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Walters hasn’t officially started as Kangaroos coach yet but could already have his hands full with Hamiso…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-11002","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\/11002","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=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}