{"id":269775,"date":"2025-11-07T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269775\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:58:10","slug":"mark-geyer-calls-for-ashes-series-format-change-after-six-kangaroos-stars-snubbed-england-vs-australia-third-test-headingley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269775\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Geyer calls for Ashes series format change after six Kangaroos stars snubbed, England vs Australia, third Test, Headingley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kangaroos player Mark Geyer has called for changes to the next Ashes Tour after six members of Australia\u2019s touring party failed to play a game in the 2025 installment. <\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Moses, Dylan Edwards, Bradman Best, Ethan Strange, Blayke Brailey and Jacob Preston won\u2019t play a minute of football on our, despite being picked in the Kangaroos\u2019 24-man Ashes squad. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-rugby-league-the-ashes-australian-kangaroos-mitchell-moses-dylan-edwards-bradman-best-mark-geyer-2gb-radio-20251107-p5n8p5.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">2GB radio<\/a>, Geyer, who played three Tests for Australia, called for a new format to Ashes series to give every member of the squad some games, even if they don\u2019t make the Test 17. <\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of the 2025 Pacific Championships LIVE 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=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT&#8217;S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? 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For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a bit disappointed to see that the other six or seven guys who travelled [won\u2019t] get a run in the game this weekend,\u201d Geyer said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-rugby-league-the-ashes-australian-kangaroos-mitchell-moses-dylan-edwards-bradman-best-mark-geyer-2gb-radio-20251107-p5n8p5.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">2GB\u2019s Wide World of Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure I\u2019m a fan, to be honest, that there are three games basically week after week [on this tour] of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if they\u2019re going to do it they\u2019ve got to do it properly and at least play a couple of midweek games and at least resemble something like a Kangaroo tour that we used to have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you can\u2019t do the whole three months; that\u2019s out of the question. But at least make it maybe a six-week tour when you play a couple of their club teams midweek and then we get like a 26-28-man squad who play, [and] we see some other people play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE NRL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>NOV 1 LIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2025-november-1-blog-contracts-player-movement-players-offcontract-in-2026-perth-bears-lachlan-ilias-to-titans\/news-story\/273f05ab3378e421aa4fd10d3d63093f\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">All the latest NRL player movement as the November 1 deadline passes <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018THEY WERE A BASKET CASE\u2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2025-kevin-walters-opens-up-on-brutal-brisbane-broncos-sacking-kangaroos-australia-vs-england-ashes-series\/news-story\/d19757f6d78eca222d3015db9db53542\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kevvie on brutal Broncos sacking amid \u2018soft\u2019 claims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHARGED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/nrl-2025-trent-merrin-charged-by-nsw-police-for-allegedly-stealing-140000-in-cryptocurrency-arrested-dragons-panthers\/news-story\/4783d7398370e823dba62492cf8227f2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Former Panthers star arrested by police over alleged $140k crypto theft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Six players from the Kangaroos squad won\u2019t play a minute of the Ashes series.Source: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Kangaroos coach Kevin Walters has been careful not to cheapen the Kangaroos jersey by selecting his best 17 for all three Test matches, even though Australia have an unassailable 2-0 lead. <\/p>\n<p>However, Geyer believes the six players that were unused on the tour deserved some playing time, given what they produced in the NRL season. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have loved to see young Strange playing in this series,\u201d Geyer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he had a breakout season [with the Raiders this year].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got rewarded with the tour but hasn\u2019t seen any game time.<\/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=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Titans begin new era under Hannay | 02:25<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [the players] got picked because they were fantastic this season in the NRL, and they deserve the opportunity to play in the green and gold, but unfortunately they won\u2019t get that opportunity to do so. The Prestons of the world, obviously Dylan Edwards has been there [in Test matches in the past], but he\u2019s been on the sidelines [in this series], Mitch Moses, I think we would love to see young Blayke Brailey get a run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DCE Roosters move finally confirmed | 00:29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Kangaroos player Mark Geyer has called for changes to the next Ashes Tour after six members of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,33204,3193,156984,4430,145762,4591,1208,2057,763,12099,4612,4592,18387,3194,156979,4464,22326,761,762,3583,158,677,156980,3252,156982,130928,85,1080,156983,156943,156981,4566],"class_list":["post-269775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-breakout-season","tag-cameron-smith","tag-club-teams","tag-daly-cherry-evans","tag-deadline-passes","tag-dylan-edwards","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-fox-league","tag-game-time","tag-gold-coast-titans","tag-jacob-preston","tag-josh-hannay","tag-kevin-walters","tag-mark-geyer","tag-mitch-moses","tag-mitchell-moses","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-northern-europe","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-people-play","tag-player-movement","tag-playing-time","tag-rugby-league-ashes-live","tag-sports","tag-sydney-roosters","tag-they-were-a-basket-case","tag-titans-squad","tag-touring-party","tag-wide-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269775","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=269775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}