{"id":191980,"date":"2025-10-11T03:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T03:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:43:13","slug":"australia-boss-kevin-walters-takes-aim-at-rfl-for-worst-flight-possible-ahead-of-ashes-test-series-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191980\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia boss Kevin Walters takes aim at RFL for \u201cworst flight possible\u201d ahead of Ashes Test Series \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/australia-boss-kevin-walters-takes-aim-at-rfl-for-worst-flight-possible-ahead-of-ashes-test-series\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Australia boss Kevin Walters takes aim at RFL for \u201cworst flight possible\u201d ahead of Ashes Test Series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/74687755_Kevin-Walters-Coach-crop-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LET the mind games begin.<\/p>\n<p>Australia head coach Kevin Walters has taken aim at the RFL for giving the Kangaroos the \u201cworst flight possible\u201d ahead of the Ashes Test Series against England later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The first Test takes place on October 25 at Wembley Stadium, but Walters isn\u2019t a fan of the way in which his squad will be making the trip to England.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Walters has hired a sleep specialist to help with the potential jet lag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RFL (Rugby Football League), in their kindness, have given us the worst flight possible to be flying to England if you\u2019re a sports team,\u201d Walters said on the Inside Ball podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt couldn\u2019t have been worse so we have hired, without giving away too much information, a sleep specialist who specialises in overseas travel and sporting teams and making sure they get the best available preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to adjust quickly so before we go it\u2019ll start. There will be little things like sleeping tablets and trying to adjust to arriving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe arrive in London at 8:15pm. We don\u2019t want them going to sleep at 8pm because they\u2019ll be awake at 4am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need to get stuck into it too much. They\u2019re good flights and the players are flying business class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey managed to find me a seat at the front of the plane. It\u2019s very important we get that part of the trip right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LET the mind games begin. Australia head coach Kevin Walters has taken aim at the RFL for giving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-191980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}