{"id":576851,"date":"2026-03-31T18:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576851\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:58:12","slug":"team-announcement-round-5-v-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576851\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Announcement: Round 5 v Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Storm has named its squad for Friday&#8217;s Round 5 game against the undefeated Penrith Panthers at CommBank Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Craig Bellamy has made one forced change following last week\u2019s defeat to the Cowboys, with Nick Meaney returning at centre to replace Moses Leo (delayed concussion symptoms).<\/p>\n<p>With prop Tui Kamikamica also unavailable, the bench features forwards Davvy Moale, Jack Hetherington, Cooper Clarke and Lazarus Vaalepu, alongside utility Tyran Wishart and outside back Manaia Waitere.<\/p>\n<p>The extended reserves include Angus Hinchey, Trent Toelau and Preston Conn.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s game kicks-off at 8pm, live on Channel 9 \/ Fox Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm has named its squad for Friday&#8217;s Round 5 game against the undefeated Penrith Panthers at CommBank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-576851","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\/576851","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=576851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}