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Mal reveals how he'll make Roos halfback call - CtrlF.XYZ

Mal reveals how he'll make Roos halfback call

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Australian manager Mal Meninga declined to shed immoderate airy connected who'll beryllium playing halfback for the large games successful the upcoming Rugby League World Cup - saying that performances earlier successful the tourney could dictate who gets the motion betwixt Nathan Cleary and Daly Cherry-Evans.

"It could beryllium both, I don't cognize yet," Meninga told 2GB.

"That's what tours are each astir - I retrieve going successful 1982 and Steve Mortimer and Wally Lewis were the incumbents, Wally was the vice-captain.

"Frank Stanton, successful his wisdom, chose Peter Sterling and Brett Kenny implicit those two."

Stanton's determination surely paid disconnected 30 years agone erstwhile the Kangaroos blitzed all-comers, winning 22 retired of 22 matches connected tour.

Sterling started each 5 Tests against Great Britain and France, and Kenny four. While this harvest won't person anyplace adjacent arsenic galore chances to shine, Meninga did accidental the subordinate who performs amended successful the radical signifier whitethorn person the wrong way to play halfback successful the knockout stages.

"It depends connected your show erstwhile you get implicit determination - you get judged connected performance, not reputation. A batch of the players person ne'er toured, we don't cognize however it's going to impact them," helium said.

"In short, everyone's got an accidental to enactment the greenish and golden jersey on. Everyone volition play successful the greenish and golden jersey successful aboriginal rounds and past we'll marque a determination based connected performance."

Australia volition unfastened their run against Fiji adjacent weekend, with games against Scotland and Italy to follow.

Meninga was besides asked however helium felt astir players representing some New South Wales oregon Queensland and a federation different than Australia - having antecedently said that it shouldn't beryllium allowed, before changing his caput earlier this year.

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"I'm OK with that, due to the fact that they've declared early. That's truly important," helium said of players specified arsenic Brian To'o and Jarome Luai.

"In the past, we've picked an Australian broadside and we get archetypal enactment connected players - and that doesn't hap until aft the expansive final. So each of a sudden, peculiarly the Pacific nations, they get not what we'd telephone the dregs, but the players that don't get selected successful the Kangaroos, and their mentation clip is very, precise short.

"This twelvemonth we worked hard connected eligibility, making definite that players bash marque a decision. And honestly it conscionable helps each federation hole for what we judge is going to beryllium an breathtaking World Cup and truly important for the planetary game."

The tourney volition statesman with England playing Samoa adjacent Sunday morning.

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