{"id":11502,"date":"2025-07-21T18:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11502\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:58:18","slug":"state-of-origin-2025-international-rugby-league-australian-kangaroos-samoa-rugby-league-ashes-rugby-league-ashes-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11502\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Origin 2025, international rugby league, Australian Kangaroos, Samoa, rugby league Ashes, rugby league Ashes series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maroons speedster Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow is weighing up whether to quit the Kangaroos and represent Samoa at the Pacific Championship this year, it has been reported.<\/p>\n

According to the report in <\/a>The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, Queensland enforcer Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui and Blues front-rower Payne Haas are also considering the move, which is a setback for Kevin Walters, who is likely to be unveiled as the new Kangaroos coach.<\/p>\n

The Kangaroos will take on England at the end of the year in the first rugby league Ashes series since 2003.<\/p>\n

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Tabuai-Fidow represented Samoa at the 2021 Rugby League World Cup (actually held in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), but only played one Test due to injury, before featuring in six Tests for Australia in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n

Walters is set to put pen to paper on a deal to coach the Kangaroos for the three-Test series against England, which begins at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium on October 25.<\/p>\n

Tabuai-Fidow was moved to fullback for the Maroons for the Origin decider earlier this month in Sydney, replacing the injured Kalyn Ponga, and he excelled in the role.<\/p>\n

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The 23-year-old is a contender for the Australian fullback spot, along with incumbent Dylan Edwards, Reece Walsh and Kalyn Ponga, if he recovers from injury in time and wants to play for Australia.<\/p>\n

After the first Test at Wembley, the second Test will be played on November 1 at Liverpool\u2019s Everton Stadium and the third Test at Headingley Stadium in Leeds on November 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maroons speedster Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow is weighing up whether to quit the Kangaroos and represent Samoa at the Pacific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,13387,13388,13383,4591,1208,11169,2057,763,2105,13389,5094,3194,11174,673,13392,3583,677,13390,4598,13385,13391,159,13384,85,13386,670,776,3586],"class_list":["post-11502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-fullback-spot","tag-australian-kangaroos","tag-city-of-leeds","tag-dylan-edwards","tag-england","tag-epic-locker-room","tag-europe","tag-fox-league","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-international-rugby-league","tag-isaah-yeo","tag-kevin-walters","tag-locker-room-spray","tag-new-south-wales","tag-new-south-wales-blues","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-payne-haas","tag-penrith-panthers","tag-queensland-maroons","tag-reece-walsh","tag-rugby-league","tag-rugby-league-world","tag-sports","tag-switching-allegiance","tag-sydney","tag-tom-dearden","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502","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=11502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}