{"id":7910,"date":"2025-07-20T07:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7910\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:41:09","slug":"kevin-walters-to-be-named-kangaroos-when-will-it-be-announced-ashes-series-replaces-mal-mengina-arlc-rugby-league-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7910\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Walters to be named Kangaroos, when will it be announced, Ashes series, replaces Mal Mengina, ARLC, rugby league news"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ARLC are set to announce Kevin Walters as the next Australian head coach for the three-match Ashes series at the end of the year. <\/p>\n

According to Code Sports,<\/a> the former Broncos and Maroons coach has reportedly signed a deal for just three games. It\u2019s unclear if Walters will continue in the role following the Ashes series.<\/p>\n

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It appears likely that Walters will keep the gig if the Aussies are able to win the series in England.<\/p>\n

Walters will replace Mal Meninga in the plum job with Meninga having to step down from the role given his new position as the head coach of the Perth Bears.<\/p>\n

On the desk for Fox League\u2019s Sunday Ticket, Walters was asked about Code Sports\u2019 report that he would lead the Kangaroos. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI can\u2019t tell you anything. There will be a decision made tomorrow,\u201d Walters straight batted. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a privilege to coach the green and gold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ARLC are set to announce Kevin Walters as the next Australian head coach for the three-match Ashes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,9808,651,9807,9810,1208,9410,2057,763,5330,4582,761,762,7204,3583,158,677,701,85,9809],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-head","tag-brisbane","tag-clive-berghofer-centre","tag-coach-kevin-walters","tag-england","tag-epic-win","tag-europe","tag-fox-league","tag-head-coach","tag-jarome-luai","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-north-melbourne-kangaroos","tag-northern-europe","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-queensland","tag-sports","tag-tigers-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","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=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}