{"id":161047,"date":"2025-09-22T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161047\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:47:10","slug":"erin-clark-named-in-rlpa-2025-players-dream-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161047\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Clark named in RLPA 2025 Players&#8217; Dream Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One New Zealand Warriors loose forward Erin Clark has been rewarded for his outstanding season by making the player-voted 2025 Players\u2019 Dream Team.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of three Warriors who were finalists for positions in the team along with winger Roger Tuivasa-Sheck and rookie second rower Leka Halasima.<\/p>\n<p>It said so much about Clark\u2019s season that players across the NRL\u2019s 17 teams voted him at lock ahead of two of the most highly-rated players in the game in Penrith captain Isaah Yeo and his former Titans skipper Tino Fa&#8217;asuamaleaui.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Clark, who brought up his 100th career appearance early in the season, played in all of the club\u2019s 25 matches averaging 147 metres and 34 tackles a game (95 per cent tackle efficiency).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image__image o-shadowed-box\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rlpa_players-champion_nrl-dreamteam_16x916x9.png\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<\/p>\n<p>His total of 1451 post-contact metres was fifth best in the entire competition bettered by only props Addin Fonua-Blake, Naufahu Whyte and Payne Haas plus winger Daniel Tupou. Among all forwards the only ones to top Clark&#8217;s total run metres of 3696 were Fonua-Blake, Terrell May and Patrick Carrigan.<\/p>\n<p>The other finalists for the wing positions alongside Tuivasa-Sheck were Mark Nawaqanitawase (Roosters), Brian To\u2019o(Panthers) and Xavier Coates (Storm) with Nawaqanitawase and Coates winning the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant rookie Halasima was in competition for the second row spots with Eliesa Katoa (Storm), Haumole Olakau&#8217;atu (Sea Eagles) and Hudson Young (Raiders); Katoa and Young captured the most votes.<\/p>\n<p>While they are now two of the last four teams left in the grand final race, the Panthers and Sharks don\u2019t have one player in the Dream Team.<\/p>\n<p>2025 Players&#8217; Dream Team<\/p>\n<p>Fullback: James Tedesco (Roosters)<br \/>Wingers: Mark Nawaqanitawase (Roosters), Xavier Coates (Storm)<br \/>Centres: Stephen Crichton (Bulldogs), Herbie Farnworth (Dolphins)<br \/>Five-eighth: Ethan Strange (Raiders)<br \/>Halfback: Isaiya Katoa (Dolphins)<br \/>Props: Payne Haas (Broncos), Joseph Tapine (Raiders)<br \/>Hooker: Harry Grant (Storm)<br \/>Second rowers: Eliesa Katoa (Storm), Hudson Young (Raiders)<br \/>Lock: Erin Clark (One New Zealand Warriors)<br \/>Impact: Kurt Mann (Bulldogs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One New Zealand Warriors loose forward Erin Clark has been rewarded for his outstanding season by making the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-161047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161047","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=161047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}