{"id":194807,"date":"2025-10-07T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194807\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:56:09","slug":"carter-gordon-code-switch-gold-coast-titans-queensland-reds-australia-wallabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194807\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter Gordon code switch, Gold Coast Titans, Queensland Reds, Australia, Wallabies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carter Gordon is reportedly on the verge of returning to rugby<\/a> and making a play for the Wallabies No.10 jersey at the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n

The talented but inexperienced Gordon – now 24 – was thrown to the wolves by Eddie Jones at the last World Cup in France.<\/p>\n

Gordon then switched to the NRL with the Gold Coast Titans but an unusual neck injury held him back this season.<\/p>\n

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\"Rob<\/p>\n

Rob Leota, Samu Kerevi, Carter Gordon, Mark Nawaqanitawase of Australia.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The Queenslander played just one first grade game due to a spinal fluid leak that eventually required surgery.<\/p>\n

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Titans had granted Gordon permission to negotiate with Rugby Australia and the Queensland Reds were the likely destination.<\/p>\n

Gordon previously played rugby for the now defunct Melbourne Rebels.<\/p>\n

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\"Carter<\/p>\n

Carter Gordon of the Wallabies gestures to his team.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The Reds are led by Wallabies coach-in-waiting Les Kiss and have Test pivot Tom Lynagh on their books.<\/p>\n

If confirmed, it is a big boost for RA on the back of Mark Nawaqanitawase’s return to the code.<\/p>\n

Former Wallabies star Quade Cooper is a fan.<\/p>\n

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“The player we should be targeting to get back is Carter Gordon,” he posted on X after Australia’s latest loss to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

“With good coaching systems now in place, he would absolutely flourish and using the depth of Ben Donaldson, Tom Lynagh and old head James O’Connor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carter Gordon is reportedly on the verge of returning to rugby and making a play for the Wallabies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-194807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194807","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=194807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}