{"id":550532,"date":"2026-03-19T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550532\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:28:10","slug":"team-update-round-3-v-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550532\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Update: Round 3 v Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Bellamy has confirmed his Melbourne Storm squad for Friday\u2019s Round 3 clash against the Brisbane Broncos at AAMI Park.<\/p>\n<p>The starting team features one change from Tuesday\u2019s team announcement, with Alec MacDonald making his return from concussion to start at second-row in place of Ativalu Lisati.<\/p>\n<p>Lisati sustained a calf strain during training this week and is expected to be sidelined for around a month.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the interchange bench includes a return for Trent Loiero following his two-game suspension, alongside a potential Storm debut for playmaker Trent Toelau.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s game against the Broncos kicks-off at 8pm \u2013 tickets available <a href=\"https:\/\/premier.ticketek.com.au\/shows\/show.aspx?sh=STORM26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy has confirmed his Melbourne Storm squad for Friday\u2019s Round 3 clash against the Brisbane Broncos at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-550532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550532","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=550532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}