{"id":264977,"date":"2025-11-05T19:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264977\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:57:13","slug":"kangaroos-team-for-third-test-against-england-isaah-yeo-only-change-as-six-players-miss-out-news-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/264977\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroos team for third Test against England, Isaah Yeo only change as six players miss out, news, video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kangaroos will be virtually unchanged for the third and final Ashes Test against England at Headingley, with captain Isaah Yeo returning at lock, Patrick Carrigan shifting back to prop and Lindsay Smith dropping off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>The decision means that six players who have toured won\u2019t play a game in England: Mitchell Moses, Bradman Best, Ethan Strange, Jacob Preston, Dylan Edwards and Blayke Brailey.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Kevin Walters told reporters in England that it was a tough decision, but he had decided to reward the players who had delivered victory and was now intent on a 3-0 series whitewash.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the 2025 Rugby League Ashes LIVE with no ad-breaks in play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkleague-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-nrl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/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><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761200708_112_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yeo, who missed the second Test due to concussion, added: \u201cIt was a bit of a reward for the guys who have been there.<\/p>\n<p>Isaah Yeo is back for the third Ashes Test. Picture: NRL ImagerySource: Supplied<\/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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to try and make it 3-0, that\u2019s really important for this group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AUSTRALIA: 1. Reece Walsh. 2. Mark Nawaqanitawase, 3. Kotoni Staggs, 4. Gehamat Shibasaki, 5. Josh Addo-Carr, 6. Cameron Munster, 7. Nathan Cleary, 8. Pat Carrigan, 9. Harry Grant, 10. Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui, 11. Angus Crichton, 12. Hudson Young, 13. Isaah Yeo (c), 14. Tom Dearden, 15. Lindsay Collins, 16. Reuben Cotter, 17. Keaon Koloamatangi.<\/p>\n<p>Kangaroos take Ashes after grinding win | 02:32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kangaroos will be virtually unchanged for the third and final Ashes Test against England at Headingley, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[155023,64,63,689,139441,4567,9810,4591,1208,155022,2057,763,23622,82652,5094,4592,4451,131347,4434,1613,22326,761,762,673,7204,3583,158,677,26598,22329,13391,130928,44219,85,776,155024],"class_list":["post-264977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-ashes-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brutal-call","tag-cameron-munster","tag-coach-kevin-walters","tag-dylan-edwards","tag-england","tag-england-ashes-presser","tag-europe","tag-fox-league","tag-grant","tag-hudson-young","tag-isaah-yeo","tag-jacob-preston","tag-josh-addo-carr","tag-kangaroos-team","tag-lindsay-smith","tag-liverpool","tag-mitchell-moses","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-south-wales","tag-north-melbourne-kangaroos","tag-northern-europe","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-pat-carrigan","tag-patrick-carrigan","tag-reece-walsh","tag-rugby-league-ashes-live","tag-series-whitewash","tag-sports","tag-tom-dearden","tag-whitewash-looms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264977","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=264977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}