{"id":491877,"date":"2026-02-20T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491877\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:08:09","slug":"nrl-2026-witzer-pre-season-challenge-2026-live-blog-round-3-match-highlights-late-mail-injuries-warriors-wests-tigers-dolphins-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491877\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026, Witzer Pre-Season Challenge 2026, live blog, round 3, match highlights, late mail, injuries, Warriors, Wests Tigers, Dolphins, Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No better way to spend a summer night in February than sitting on the hill at Leichhardt Oval and taking in a Witzer Pre-Season Challenge double-header.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors and Dolphins round out their pre-season campaigns in the opening match before hometown heroes Wests Tigers tackle the powerhouse Panthers in a mouth-watering clash.<\/p>\n<p>Follow all the action from Round 3 of the 2026 Witzer Pre-Season Challenge on NRL.com&#8217;s live blog.<\/p>\n<p>Warriors v Dolphins at Leichhardt Oval<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off:\u00a0The Dolphins have first use of the ball in Friday night&#8217;s opening match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fun family fact: Three sons of former Warriors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warriors.kiwi\/news\/2026\/02\/20\/team-list-four-all-stars-brought-in-to-face-dolphins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have been named to play this game<\/a>.\u00a0Haizyn Mellars, son of Warrior #106 Vince Mellars, is on the wing for the One New Zealand Warriors as he was against the Sea Eagles last Saturday while Warrior #206 Issac Luke&#8217;s son Adaquix and Warriors #124 Nathan Fien&#8217;s son Noah are both on the Dolphins&#8217; extended bench.<\/p>\n<p>Late Mail: No changes to the squads named on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wests Tigers v Panthers at Leichhardt Oval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No better way to spend a summer night in February than sitting on the hill at Leichhardt Oval&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-491877","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\/491877","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=491877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}