{"id":167922,"date":"2025-09-25T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167922\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:43:08","slug":"team-update-preliminary-final-v-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167922\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Update: Preliminary Final v Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Bellamy has named his 19-man squad for Friday\u2019s Preliminary Final against the Sharks at a sold out AAMI Park.<\/p>\n<p>Jahrome Hughes has been named to make his return at halfback, with Ryan Papenhuyzen also passed fit to start in the No. 1 jersey.<\/p>\n<p>In the forward pack, Ativalu Lisati will make his first NRL Finals start for Melbourne, selected in the second-row.<\/p>\n<p>Tyran Wishart, Shawn Blore, Tui Kamikamica, and Alec MacDonald have been named on the bench, while Grant Anderson and Joe Chan are listed among the extended reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy has named his 19-man squad for Friday\u2019s Preliminary Final against the Sharks at a sold out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-167922","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\/167922","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=167922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}