{"id":282217,"date":"2025-11-13T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:45:31","slug":"sharks-to-meet-bulldogs-in-nrl-magic-round-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282217\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks to meet Bulldogs in NRL Magic Round blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting for three consecutive Magic Round victories, the Sharks will face the Bulldogs on Friday, May 15 to launch an eight-game NRL extravaganza at Brisbane&#8217;s Suncorp Stadium in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Having beaten the Roosters and Eels in the past two editions of the rugby league festival, Cronulla are pencilled in for a 6pm shootout against Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>NRL Magic Round will begin with Women&#8217;s State of Origin Game Two on Thursday, May 14 before the spotlight turns to the scintillating Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can get in early by taking advantage of a four-day pass to take in all the action from Thursday-Sunday (on sale to NRL Club Members and NRL Account Holders during an exclusive pre-sale window from Tuesday, December 2 before going on sale to the general public on Thursday, December 4 via NRL.com\/tickets).<\/p>\n<p>Three-day Magic Round passes and single game Women&#8217;s State of Origin tickets will be available for purchase for NRL Club Members and Account Holders from Wednesday, December 3 and for the general public on Thursday, December 4.<\/p>\n<p>A range of premium hospitality experiences are also available from NRL.com\/hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>The full NRL and NRLW draws will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>Four Days of Magic<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 14 May<br \/>Women&#8217;s State of Origin Game 2 @ Suncorp Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Friday 15 May<br \/>Sharks v Bulldogs, 6.00pm (AEST) &#8211; Fox<br \/>Rabbitohs v Dolphins, 8.00pm (AEST) &#8211; Nine\/Fox<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 16 May<br \/>Wests Tigers v Sea Eagles, 3.00pm (AEST) &#8211; Fox<br \/>Roosters v Cowboys, 5.30pm (AEST) &#8211; Fox<br \/>Eels v Storm, 7.45pm (AEST) &#8211; Nine\/Fox<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 17 May<br \/>Titans v Knights, 2.00pm (AEST) &#8211; Fox<br \/>Warriors v Broncos, 4.00pm (AEST) &#8211; Nine\/Fox<br \/>Panthers v Dragons, 6.25pm (AEST) &#8211; Fox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shooting for three consecutive Magic Round victories, the Sharks will face the Bulldogs on Friday, May 15 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-282217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282217","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=282217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}