{"id":676377,"date":"2026-05-17T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676377\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:29:12","slug":"nrl-live-updates-2026-penrith-panthers-v-st-george-illawarra-dragons-teams-ins-and-outs-live-blog-ivan-cleary-magic-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676377\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL LIVE UPDATES 2026: Penrith Panthers v St. George Illawarra Dragons, teams, ins and outs, live blog, Ivan Cleary, Magic Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magic Round 2026 concludes on Sunday night with the Panthers taking on the Dragons.<\/p>\n<p>MATCH CENTRE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-premiership\/match-centre\/NRL20261108\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dragons v Panthers, scores, stats, live blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On paper, this looks like and extremely lopsided contest. Penrith have clearly been the NRL\u2019s best side this season while the Dragons have yet to win a game and have lost their last two by a combined margin of 80 points.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WHAT&#8217;S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>In a late switch, Izack Tago will start in the back row, with Luke Garner to start on the pine. <\/p>\n<p>Panthers team: 1. Dylan Edwards 2. Thomas Jenkins 3. Paul Alamoti 4. Casey McLean 5. Brian To\u2019o 6. Blaize Talagi 7. Nathan Cleary 8. Moses Leota 9. Freddy Lussick 10. Lindsay Smith 11. Isaiah Papali\u2019i 17. Izack Tago 13. Isaah Yeo 12. Luke Garner 14. Jack Cogger 15. Scott Sorensen 16. Liam Henry 18. Billy Phillips 19. Billy Scott<\/p>\n<p>Dragons team: 1. Clinton Gutherson 2. Setu Tu 3. Moses Suli 4. Valentine Holmes 5. Christian Tuipulotu 6. Daniel Atkinson 7. Kyle Flanagan 8. Loko Jnr Pasifiki Tonga 9. Damien Cook 10. Toby Couchman 11. Dylan Egan 12. Hamish Stewart 13. Ryan Couchman 14. Luciano Leilua 15. Emre Guler 16. Josh Kerr 17. Blake Lawrie 19. Lyhkan King-Togia 20. Hayden Buchanan <\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW ALL THE ACTION IN THE LIVE BLOG BELOW. CAN\u2019T SEE IT? <a href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/live\/fox-sports-australia\/NRL20261108?v=2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magic Round 2026 concludes on Sunday night with the Panthers taking on the Dragons. MATCH CENTRE: Dragons v&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-676377","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\/676377","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=676377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}