{"id":104366,"date":"2025-08-29T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104366\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:55:07","slug":"late-mail-round-26-v-roosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104366\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Mail: Round 26 v Roosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Storm has confirmed its line-up for tonight\u2019s Round 26 clash against the Sydney Roosters at AAMI Park, Craig Bellamy\u2019s 600th game as senior coach.<\/p>\n<p>Will Warbrick returns from a long-term concussion and has been named to start on the right wing, making his first NRL appearance since March.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Asofa-Solomona also returns to the starting side, slotting in at prop, with Alec MacDonald moving to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Utoikamanu will wear the number eight jersey for his 100th NRL appearance.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald joins Jonah Pezet, Ativalu Lisati and Lazarus Vaalepu on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Siulagi Tuimalatu-Brown has been named 18th man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm has confirmed its line-up for tonight\u2019s Round 26 clash against the Sydney Roosters at AAMI Park,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-104366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104366","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=104366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}