{"id":237293,"date":"2025-10-24T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237293\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:17:09","slug":"im-done-with-the-wallabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237293\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m done with the Wallabies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/john-eales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Eales<\/a> Medallist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/marika-koroibete\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marika Koroibete<\/a> has called time on his Test career.<\/p>\n<p>The Fijian-born dual-code star, who switched to rugby in 2017 after six seasons in the NRL, was among the world\u2019s best wingers when he claimed his second Eales medal in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Koroibete\u2019s value was such that he remained in the side while playing for Japan\u2019s Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights until his final Test in Sydney last September.<\/p>\n<p>But with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/max-jorgensen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Jorgensen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/harry-potter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a>, Dylan Pietch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/corey-toole\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Toole<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/filipo-daugunu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Filipo Daugunu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/andrew-kellaway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kellaway<\/a> all jostling for minutes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/mark-nawaqanitawase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Nawaqanitawase<\/a> due to return ahead of the 2027 World Cup he saw the writing on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m done with the Wallabies,\u201d a gracious Koroibete said ahead of the Wild Knights\u2019 pre-season fixture against the Queensland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/reds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reds<\/a> at Ballymore on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got a lot of young outside backs coming and competing for the World Cup as well, which is exciting to see. There\u2019s great talent there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Koroibete, who splits his time between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a> and Brisbane and owns a kava farm in Fiji, played 63 Tests and scored 20 tries for the Wallabies.<\/p>\n<p>He played 69 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/super-rugby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Rugby Pacific<\/a> games for the Melbourne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/rebels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rebels<\/a> before the move to Japan in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time John Eales Medallist Marika Koroibete has called time on his Test career. The Fijian-born dual-code star, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-237293","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\/237293","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=237293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}