DCE to wear No.2 in Roos' bizarre jersey system

With the Rugby League World Cup dictating that each participating nations springiness their players a jersey fig that they deterioration for the full tournament, the Kangaroos are mixing things up. Rather than picking a preferred 17 earlier the World Cup begins and allocating jersey numbers connected that basis, Australia's adjunct manager Michael Hagan devised a strategy whereby the players who person represented the Kangaroos for the longest get the lowest jersey numbers, and the rookies get the scraps astatine the end, with their numbers determined by alphabetical order. As captain, James Tedesco volition deterioration his customary No.1 but from that constituent connected it gets beauteous wild, with Daly Cherry-Evans, who made his debut mode backmost successful 2011 wearing No.2, and Isaah Yeo, who is yet to debut and has a surname astatine the backmost of the alphabet wearing No.24. Scroll to spot the often bizarre jersey fig each Australian subordinate volition deterioration astatine the upcoming World Cup.

By Ben Glover|5:55am Oct 06, 2022