{"id":243422,"date":"2025-10-27T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243422\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:56:10","slug":"how-do-the-kangaroos-replace-isaah-yeo-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243422\/","title":{"rendered":"How do the Kangaroos replace Isaah Yeo? – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia<\/a> were dominant in their 26-6 win over England<\/a> on the weekend, despite multiple Kangaroos describing their performance as \u201cscrappy\u201d at best.<\/p>\n

While they’ll be carrying momentum into next week’s Ashes clash, they’ll be doing so without their captain and star lock Isaah Yeo<\/a>, who had succumb to concussion against England<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lucky for the Kangaroos, however, they’re about as stacked at the lock position as a team can be, but who should don the No. 13 jumper in Game 2?<\/p>\n

Most rugby league squads would shift their utility in at lock, however, with their current No.14 being star halfback Tom Dearden<\/a>, they likely should look elsewhere for Yeo’s replacement.<\/p>\n

\"NSWIsaah Yeo. (Photo: Joshua Davis)<\/p>\n

This leaves stars like Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a>, Keaon Koloamatangi<\/a>, Patrick Carrigan<\/a>, and Reuben Cotter<\/a>, while reserves in Jacob Preston<\/a> and Lindsay Smith<\/a> also prove as solid forward options.<\/p>\n

Fa’asuamaleaui and Carrigan were dominant as props, and will be unlikely to shift out of their roles, despite excelling at lock for their respective clubs.<\/p>\n

Cotter has been brilliant as an impact bench piece, and head coach Kevin Walters<\/a> would unlikely want to lose his versatility off the interchange.<\/p>\n

Koloamatangi has been electric since shifting into the middle for the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>, and could prove an unlikely beneficiary of Yeo’s absence.<\/p>\n

\"TheKeaon Koloamatangi reacting to a pass at NSW Blues training. (Photo by Joshua Davis)<\/p>\n

He would likely be the most convenient option at lock, and would cause the least commotion in the grand scheme of things for the Kangaroos.<\/p>\n

This would mean one of Smith or Preston would likely shift into the side, with the former providing more depth in the middle.<\/p>\n

If the Kangaroos did decide to go down this route, they’d likely see few hiccups as they prepare to claim the Ashes series against England<\/a> next weekend.<\/p>\n

Proposed forward pack<\/p>\n

8. Patrick Carrigan<\/a><\/p>\n

9. Harry Grant<\/a><\/p>\n

10. Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a><\/p>\n

11. Angus Crichton<\/a><\/p>\n

12. Hudson Young<\/a><\/p>\n

13. Keaon Koloamatangi<\/a><\/p>\n

14. Tom Dearden<\/a><\/p>\n

15. Lindsay Collins<\/a><\/p>\n

16. Reuben Cotter<\/a><\/p>\n

17. Lindsay Smith<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia were dominant in their 26-6 win over England on the weekend, despite multiple Kangaroos describing their performance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-243422","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\/243422","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=243422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}