{"id":227585,"date":"2025-10-20T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227585\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:58:08","slug":"australia-to-show-ashes-hand-early-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227585\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to show Ashes hand early \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/no-point-hiding-things-australia-to-show-ashes-hand-early\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to \u2018No point hiding things\u2019: Australia to show Ashes hand early\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/79876051_KANGAROOS_TRAIN_251018_GT_0104_20251018125131-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTRALIA plan to name their line-up for the first Ashes game at Wembley tomorrow (Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Walters\u2019 Kangaroos will keep to NRL custom \u2013 naming squads on the Tuesday of game week, regardless of when the match is played \u2013 despite not needing to name it until the day of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The two nations are only required to list a 21-man squad early in the week, 19 players two days prior to the fixture and then the line-up before kick-off.<\/p>\n<p>But new coach Walters is happy to show his hand early ahead of Saturday\u2019s opener in London with the full teamsheet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see a point in hiding things, who\u2019s playing where,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kangaroos arrived in England on Wednesday and have been training at St Mary\u2019s University in Twickenham.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday and Saturday they had opposed sessions there with the French national team, who are preparing for a big game of their own this Saturday against Jamaica for a place at next year\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Australia will be led, as for last year\u2019s Pacific Cup success, by Penrith Panthers loose-forward Isaah Yeo.<\/p>\n<p>A four-time NRL winner and New South Wales stalwart, Yeo insisted playing in green and gold \u2013 as he did on their last trip to England in 2022, returning a world champion \u2013 is \u201cstill the pinnacle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThere\u2019s excitement to be on the other side of the world and playing in something that hasn\u2019t been around for 20-odd years, the Ashes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d be crazy to not be excited by it. I\u2019m looking forward to the week ahead. We need to connect, and we\u2019ll be ready to go come Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTRALIA plan to name their line-up for the first Ashes game at Wembley tomorrow (Tuesday). Kevin Walters\u2019 Kangaroos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-227585","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\/227585","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=227585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}