{"id":52649,"date":"2025-08-08T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52649\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:20:09","slug":"nrl-team-update-james-fisher-harris-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52649\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL Team Update: James Fisher-Harris back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Fisher-Harris has been confirmed to return from a calf injury to lead the One New Zealand Warriors in their Indigenous Round clash against Canterbury Bankstown at Accor Stadium in Sydney tomorrow night\u00a0(7.35pm kick-off local time; 9.35pm NZT).<\/p>\n<p>He missed last week\u2019s 18-20 loss to the Dolphins but comes back into the side along with standoff Chanel Harris-Tavita and middle forward Demitric Vaimauga who were also sidelined last week.<\/p>\n<p>Harris-Tavita (calf) returns in the halves alongside Tanah Boyd with front rower Vaimauga (knee) included on the interchange.<\/p>\n<p>With Fisher-Harris back, Marata Niukore moves into the second row, Leka Halasima is switched to the interchange and last week\u2019s debutant Eddie Ieremia-Toeava is listed as 19th man.<\/p>\n<p>While Harris-Tavita, Vaimauga and Fisher-Harris are in the mix, hooker Wayde Egan is sidelined indefinitely with a shoulder injury and second rower Jacob Laban will be out for six weeks with a leg fracture he suffered in a tackle by Dolphins prop Felise Kaufusi.<\/p>\n<p>Taine Tuaupiki will start at fullback again with Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad backing up in the centres for the second straight week and Sam Healey starting at hooker again.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors and Bulldogs both go into the much-anticipated encounter on the backe of defeats, the Warriors suffering a heartbreaking 18-20 loss to the Dolphins while the Bulldogs went down 14-28 to the Wests Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Fisher-Harris has been confirmed to return from a calf injury to lead the One New Zealand Warriors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-52649","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\/52649","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=52649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}