{"id":179974,"date":"2025-09-30T12:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179974\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:20:19","slug":"panther-leads-but-favourites-for-overall-crown-emerge-zero-tackle-nrl-finals-mvp-week-3-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179974\/","title":{"rendered":"Panther leads but favourites for overall crown emerge: Zero Tackle NRL finals MVP, Week 3 &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/cameron-munster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Munster<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/reece-walsh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reece Walsh<\/a> have placed themselves as the most likely players to take out Zero Tackle&#8217;s NRL Finals MVP after putting together strong performances during the preliminary finals.<\/p>\n<p>The star Melbourne five-eighth and Brisbane fullback have both polled in the two sides&#8217; games to date, and while Penrith winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/paul-alamoti\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Alamoti<\/a> has the lead of the competition, he won&#8217;t play in the grand final, so he should get mowed down this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Munster, who scored 17 in a qualifying final win over the Bulldogs, managed another 18 votes on the weekend to sit just one off the lead, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/reece-walsh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reece Walsh<\/a> was perfect in the opening weeks against the Raiders and, with 11 against the Panthers, is now four votes behind Munster.<\/p>\n<p>The grand final qualifiers had one unanimous man of the match, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/payne-haas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Payne Haas<\/a> claiming all 20 votes for the Broncos, while Munster and the returning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jahrome-hughes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jahrome Hughes<\/a> split top spot for the Storm.<\/p>\n<p>For each game in the finals, our panel consisting of Zero Tackle founder Matt Clements, writers Ethan Lee Chalk and Dan Nichols, and me as editor, will vote on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis to crown the eventual champion.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the votes from Week 2 of the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Top Ten<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/2025-nrl-finals-mvp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here to view the full leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Cameron Munster and Reece Walsh have placed themselves as the most likely players to take out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-179974","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\/179974","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=179974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}