{"id":84423,"date":"2025-08-21T07:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84423\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:37:13","slug":"gorden-tallis-snubbed-for-potential-kangaroos-role-kevin-walters-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84423\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorden Tallis snubbed for potential Kangaroos role, Kevin Walters coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Walters<\/a> has been hit with a blow ahead of the Ashes series, with the Kangaroos<\/a> coach’s plan to bring Gorden Tallis<\/a> into camp rejected by the NRL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, the plan was for Tallis to be involved as a cultural figurehead as part of Walters’ support staff for the tour.<\/p>\n

Walters wanted his former Broncos teammate to be part of the group and help the current players understand the importance of wearing the green and gold jersey.<\/p>\n

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Tallis is a former Kangaroos captain but that wasn’t enough to convince NRL officials to green-light the position, deeming it unnecessary for the squad.<\/p>\n

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Gorden Tallis in his role as an NRL sideline eye.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Those who made the call see Walters – who landed the gig after Mal Meninga stepped down to become Perth Bears coach – possess enough knowledge and passion for the Kangaroos jumper to educate the players on what it means to play in the Ashes.<\/p>\n

Walters was also keen to bring in Broncos assistants Trent Barrett and Ben Te’o for the series, but the NRL will be looking to lean away from having club-affiliated coaches involved in the national team set-up moving forward.<\/p>\n

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Instead, coaches who are currently in the Super League could factor into discussions, opening the door for the likes of Willie Peters, Brad Arthur and Adrian Lam.<\/p>\n

Justin Holbrook was part of Meninga’s coaching staff last year, but could be overlooked due to his affiliation with the Sydney Roosters under the new edict.<\/p>\n

The series between Australia and England kicks off on October 25 at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Walters has been hit with a blow ahead of the Ashes series, with the Kangaroos coach’s plan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-84423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84423","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=84423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}