{"id":264899,"date":"2025-11-05T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264899\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:05:10","slug":"kangaroos-resist-lineup-changes-for-third-ashes-test-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264899\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroos resist lineup changes for third Ashes Test against England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian coach Kevin Walters has resisted the opportunity to give all touring players a chance to feature in this year\u2019s Ashes series, with the team\u2019s senior players reluctant to step aside.<\/p>\n<p>With the series wrapped up, the Australian coaches had been giving thought to handing the six players who haven\u2019t featured in the series (Mitchell Moses, Bradman Best, Ethan Strange, Jacob Preston, Dyland Edwards and Blayke Brailey) a chance to play in game three at Headingley.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reece Walsh celebrates with teammates after scoring a try, during the rugby league match between England and Australia.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5af75881b1112c7e45ced5d3fda4928303ecd848.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reece Walsh celebrates with teammates after scoring a try, during the rugby league match between England and Australia.Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p>However, Walters had a discussion with his senior players and instead decided to reward those players who have done the job for him so far<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to some of the senior players and also some of the selectors, because it wasn\u2019t an easy decision,\u201d Walters said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to make the right decision for the Kangaroos and the jersey. In the end, after some consultation and chats, the best thing to do was to go back to that 17 that started the Test series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only change to the Australian team that clinched the series at Everton\u2019s Hill Dickinson Stadium is the return of skipper Isaah Yeo, who sat out the second Test due to a concussion he suffered in the opening game of the series at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hudson Young celebrates scoring a try during the Rugby League Ashes match between England and Australia.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0bd729541e123869defc9d2bfa9f115265377343.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hudson Young celebrates scoring a try during the Rugby League Ashes match between England and Australia.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a bit of a reward for the guys who have been there,\u201d Yeo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never want to give away your jersey, but on the flip side is you\u2019d love to give the boys who haven\u2019t played an opportunity because they\u2019ve been fantastic for us. I think there was a fair bit of swinging both ways but in the end we\u2019re all in on this. We want to try and make it 3-0, that\u2019s really important for this group.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian coach Kevin Walters has resisted the opportunity to give all touring players a chance to feature in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-264899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264899","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=264899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}