{"id":704208,"date":"2026-05-30T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704208\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:48:10","slug":"late-mail-round-13-v-roosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704208\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Mail: Round 13 v Roosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Bellamy has confirmed his Melbourne Storm team for tonight&#8217;s Round 13 game against the Sydney Roosters at AAMI Park.<\/p>\n<p>The starting side features two changes following Friday\u2019s team update, with Harry Grant shifting to the interchange bench and Trent Toelau named to start at hooker.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Clarke also comes into the starting forward pack, with Alec MacDonald moving to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>In a major boost for Craig Bellamy&#8217;s side, Queensland Origin captain Cameron Munster has been named to start at five-eighth, with fellow Maroon Trent Loiero at lock.<\/p>\n<p>The bench includes a potential Storm debut for Josiah Pahulu, with Jack Hetherington in contention to make his 100th NRL appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s game is dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/starlightstormathon.org.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Starlight Children&#8217;s Foundation<\/a>, celebrating 10 years of Melbourne Storm&#8217;s long-standing partnership with Starlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy has confirmed his Melbourne Storm team for tonight&#8217;s Round 13 game against the Sydney Roosters at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-704208","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\/704208","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=704208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}