{"id":578144,"date":"2026-04-01T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578144\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:25:11","slug":"nrlq-team-list-six-from-nrl-squad-named-for-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578144\/","title":{"rendered":"NRLQ team list: Six from NRL squad named for Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six members of the Cowboys\u2019 NRL squad have been named in the club\u2019s opening game of the NRLQ season against The Dolphins on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the second season of the NRLQ competition, which gives the four Queensland clubs the opportunity to showcase their best under 21s talent.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys NRLQ Head Coach Mitchell Dunn has a full arsenal of players at his disposal this weekend with the QLD Cup and Mal Meninga Cups on Easter break.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn\u2019s front-row in props Matt Watts and Kaiden Lahrs as well hooker Xavier Kerrisk are all in North Queensland\u2019s NRL squad along with second-rower Mason Kira.<\/p>\n<p>Fullback Mason Barber and halfback Zac Herdegen are also members of the Cowboys NRL squad.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the 18-man squad is made up of Cowboys Young Guns squad members, including current Mal Meninga Cup standouts Taj Lateo, Taylan To\u2019a, Cayde Miller and Archie Mesritz.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s game kicks off at 4.15pm and will be available to stream on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qplus.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.qplus.tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cowboys NRLQ team to play Dolphins:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. Mason Barber<\/p>\n<p>2. Joseph Doyle<\/p>\n<p>3. Trent Martin<\/p>\n<p>4. Kai Simon<\/p>\n<p>5. Blake Dorahy<\/p>\n<p>6. Taj Lateo<\/p>\n<p>7. Zac Herdegen<\/p>\n<p>8. Matt Watts<\/p>\n<p>9. Xavier Kerrisk<\/p>\n<p>10. Kaiden Lahrs<\/p>\n<p>11. Maddox Goodwin<\/p>\n<p>12. Mason Kira<\/p>\n<p>13. Kyle Bader<\/p>\n<p>14. Braith Dowson<\/p>\n<p>15. Taylan To\u2019a<\/p>\n<p>16. Cayde Miller<\/p>\n<p>17. Jasper Barry<\/p>\n<p>18. Archie Mesritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six members of the Cowboys\u2019 NRL squad have been named in the club\u2019s opening game of the NRLQ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-578144","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\/578144","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=578144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}