{"id":79311,"date":"2021-06-01T23:41:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79311"},"modified":"2021-06-02T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T01:01:00","slug":"souths-young-gun-gets-surprise-nsw-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79311","title":{"rendered":"Souths young gun gets surprise NSW call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Sydney back-rower Keaon Koloamatangi has been rushed into <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/state-of-origin-team-full-list-2021-game-1-nsw-blues-jarome-luai-brian-too-liam-martin\/43d0f139-8e2a-4df5-9009-967849380ace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Brad Fittler&#x27;s extended NSW Blues squad\">Brad Fittler&#x27;s extended NSW Blues squad<\/a> as a late addition ahead of next week&#x27;s State of Origin opener in Townsville.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward, who has been through the NSW pathways system,<a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/jarome-luai-state-of-origin-queensland-video-clear-air-nsw-blues\/21eb90cc-6c6f-4d95-96e8-4783bc76cca1\" title=\" joined the Blues squad last night at their base in Coogee.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> joined the Blues squad last night at their base in Coogee.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/2021-team-lists-round-13-guide-squads-club-announcement\/6fd58df6-e200-4cdc-b787-ac4114122bec\" title=\"With a bye scheduled for the Rabbitohs this weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">With a bye scheduled for the Rabbitohs this weekend<\/a>, it&#x27;s allowed the barnstorming forward to slot straight into the squad, to shadow Fittler&#x27;s expected first-string line-up without missing any NRL action.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"27d8e0ee-97a8-47d8-a110-1951864d8b69\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/27d8e0ee-97a8-47d8-a110-1951864d8b69\" alt=\"Keaon Koloamatangi. \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Koloamatangi&#x27;s play-style will provide Fittler with adequate cover for the likes of Payne Haas who is carrying a knee injury and Cameron Murray who only has 48-minutes of football under his belt since returning from injury in round 12.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Koloamatangi ran for 163 metres in a big win over Parramatta, while also making 38 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Koloamatangi has fast become a breakout star in 2021 under Wayne Bennett&#x27;s tutelage and is quickly making a name for himself as a versatile, line-breaking forward. <\/p>\n<p>He made his first grade debut for the Rabbitohs during round 4 of the 2020 NRL season, and is a South Sydney junior from the same club as Murray.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>South Sydney back-rower Keaon Koloamatangi has been rushed into Brad Fittler&#x27;s extended NSW Blues squad as a late addition ahead of next week&#x27;s State of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79311\" title=\"Souths young gun gets surprise NSW call-up\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79313,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79311\/revisions\/79313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}