{"id":173394,"date":"2025-09-27T18:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173394\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:38:44","slug":"nsw-cup-grand-final-introducing-the-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173394\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Cup Grand Final: Introducing the Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introducing the players in the One New Zealand Warriors’ squad for Sunday’s New South Wales Cup grand final against St George Illawarra at CommBank Stadium in Sydney (3.15pm kick-off local time; 6.15pm NZDT).<\/p>\n

The Warriors have five players who have clocked up more than 50 NSW Cup games in their careers, captain Kalani Going with 82, centre Moala Graham-Taufa 69, winger Setu Tu 66, winger Edward Kosi 54 and hooker Sam Healey 52.<\/p>\n


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1 Fullback | Taine Tuaupiki
Born: August 31, 1999
Height: 178cm
Weight: 83kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 8
2025 points: 56 (6 tries, 16 goals)
Career appearances (2023-2025): 34
Career points: 184 (17 tries, 58 goals)<\/p>\n


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2 | Wing | Setu Tu
Born: November 6, 1998
Height: 188cm
Weight: 96kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 13
2025 points: 44 (11 tries)
Career appearances (2019-2025): 66
Career points: 168 (42 tries)<\/p>\n


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3 | Centre | Ali Leiataua
Born: January 9, 2003
Height: 188cm
Weight: 102kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 5
2025 points: 8 (2 tries)
Career appearances (2023-2025): 31
Career points: 60 (15 tries)<\/p>\n


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4 | Centre | Moala Graham-Taufa
Born: February 22, 2002
Height: 182cm
Weight: 96kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 22
2025 points: 64 (16 tries)
Career appearances (2021-2025): 69
Career points: 172 (43 tries)<\/p>\n


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5 | Wing | Edward Kosi
Born: January 28, 1999
Height: 193cm
Weight: 107kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 19
2025 points: 60 (15 tries)
Career appearances (2019-2025): 54
Career points: 100 (25 tries)<\/p>\n


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6 | Standoff | Luke Hanson
Born: February 19, 2004
Height: 174cm
Weight: 82kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 16
2025 points: 28 (7 tries)
Career appearances (2024-2025): 34
Career points: 48 (12 tries)<\/p>\n


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7 | Halfback | Tanah Boyd
Born: July 28, 2000
Height: 176cm
Weight: 86kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 15
2025 points: 155 (1 try, 75 goals, 1 field goal)
Career appearances (2025): 15
Career points: 155 (1 try, 75 goals, 1 field goal)<\/p>\n


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8 | Prop | Bunty Afoa
Born: August 20, 1996
Height: 188cm
Weight: 113kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 15
2025 points: 0
Career appearances (2015-2025): 38
Career points: 24 (6 tries)<\/p>\n


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9 | Hooker | Sam Healey
Born: July 30, 2002
Height: 186cm
Weight: 89kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 14
2025 points: 12 (3 tries)
Career appearances (2023-2024): 52
Career points: 64 (16 tries)<\/p>\n


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10 | Prop | Tanner Stowers-Smith
Born: March 3, 2004
Height: 186cm
Weight: 103kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 10
2025 points: 16 (4 tries)
Career appearances (2024-2025): 46
Career points: 24 ( 6 tries)<\/p>\n


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11 | Second row | Kayliss Fatialofa
Born: January 25, 2005
Height: 182cm
Weight: 98kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 26
2025 points: 56 (14 tries)
Career appearances (2024-2025): 34
Career points: 64 (16 tries)<\/p>\n


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12 | Second row | Eddie Ieremia-Toeava
Born: December 15, 2004
Height: 190cm
Weight: 96kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 16
2025 points: 20 (5 tries)
Career appearances (2023-2025): 45
Career points: 44 (11 tries)<\/p>\n


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13 | Loose forward | Kalani Going | Captain
Born: January 14, 1997
Height: 178cm
Weight: 98kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 25
2025 points: 32 (8 tries)
Career appearances (2018-2025): 82
Career points: 88 (22 tries)<\/p>\n


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14 | Interchange | Makaia Tafua
Born: June 14, 2004
Height: 180cm
Weight: 88kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 16
2025 points: 12 (3 tries)
Career appearances (2024-2025): 33
Career points: 28 (7 tries)<\/p>\n


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15 | Interchange | Jason Salalilo
Born: April 28, 2005
Height: 183cm
Weight: 102kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 21
2025 points: 8 (2 tries)
Career appearances (2025): 21
Career points: 8 (2 tries)<\/p>\n


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16 | Interchange | Tom Ale
Born: April 1, 1999
Height: 183cm
Weight: 109kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 21
2025 points: 10 (2 tries, 1 goal)
Career appearances (2018-2025): 48
Career points: 18 (4 tries, 1 goal)<\/p>\n


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17 | Interchange | Jett Cleary
Born: April 2, 2005
Height: 182cm
Weight: 84kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 12
2025 points: 52 (2 tries, 22 goals)
Career appearances (2025): 12
Career points: 52 (2 tries, 22 goals)<\/p>\n


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18 | Interchange | Geronimo Doyle
Born: January 6, 1997
Height: 178cm
Weight: 92kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 24
2025 points: 32 (8 tries)
Career appearances (2023-2025): 43
Career points: 52 (13 tries)<\/p>\n


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20 | Interchange | Toby Crosby
Born: July 2, 2003
Height: 187cm
Weight: 106kg
New South Wales Cup:
2025 appearances: 23
2025 points: 16 (4 tries)
Career appearances (2024-2025): 25
Career points: 16 (4 tries)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing the players in the One New Zealand Warriors’ squad for Sunday’s New South Wales Cup grand final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-173394","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\/173394","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=173394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}