{"id":280125,"date":"2025-11-12T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280125\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:09:09","slug":"nrl-draw-facing-broncos-in-2026-magic-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280125\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL Draw: Facing Broncos in 2026 Magic Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top of the bill status has been handed to the One New Zealand Warriors for the NRL\u2019s 2026 Magic Round with confirmation of a mouth-watering clash against premiership winners the Brisbane Broncos at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the full draw being announced tomorrow, the NRL has released details of the competition\u2019s seventh annual football festival scheduled for May 15-17 next year.<\/p>\n<p>The standout feature is the second of the three games on the third day when the Warriors meet the Broncos; as is the case for the Magic Round, the Broncos will again be the \u201caway\u201d team at their home ground.<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane will be the Warriors\u2019 sixth different opponent since the Magic Round concept was introduced in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>That year they beat the Dragons 26-18, there was no round in 2020 and then they lost 18-34 to the Eels in 2021, 30-32 to the Rabbitohs in 2022 and 6-18 on the Panthers in 2023. Stunning back-to-back wins have followed over Penrith (22-20) last year and the Cowboys (30-26) this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top of the bill status has been handed to the One New Zealand Warriors for the NRL\u2019s 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-280125","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\/280125","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=280125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}