having suffered a cerebrospinal fluid leak which ruled him out for the majority of the campaign.<\/a><\/p>\nHis immediate call-up into the Wallabies squad has thrust him into the frame for the five-eighth duties come the 2027 World Cup, with his selection coming at the expense of Lynagh, who has been sidelined in a bid to overcome a host of niggling injury concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going well, he\u2019s actually got a hamstring issue that\u2019s just hanging on, and that\u2019s the main reason \u2013 he hasn\u2019t been able to get out there and train and play, so he hasn\u2019t had a lot of volume in his running, getting over the ball and kicking,\u201d Kiss said of Lynagh.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got an opportunity in the next two weeks just to work on that, we\u2019ve got a plan with RA [Rugby Australia] to make sure we get that right. He\u2019ll have a leave period, and then a full preseason with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gordon first landed on the Reds\u2019 radar as a seven-year-old, blossoming through their academy before taking his opportunity with the now fallen Melbourne Rebels.<\/p>\n
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Kiss did not believe it was premature to be bringing the 24-year-old into the Wallabies fold so soon after his rugby league defection, adamant he would pick up the 15-man code again as if he had never left.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo tell you the truth, it\u2019s been an absolute rapid four or five days. I think there was always something in Carter\u2019s mind he would like to come back one day, but from my perspective this has just accelerated in the last four or five days,\u201d Kiss said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a brief chat with Carter \u2013 he\u2019s excited as you would imagine, and really looking forward to getting back and working hard. There\u2019s no entitlement there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s obviously an opportunity to get rugby straight away, so that\u2019s important getting him into the mix straight away. I think the environment he\u2019s going to be moving into straight away is pretty ideal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe knows the challenge is there, he didn\u2019t feel entitled to anything beforehand, he just wants to fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-209640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209640","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=209640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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