{"id":781204,"date":"2026-07-05T20:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781204\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:05:49","slug":"final-team-nrl-round-18-vs-eels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781204\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Team: NRL Round 18 vs Eels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manly Warringah Sea Eagles squad has been locked in for Sunday&#8217;s Round 18 match against the Parramatta Eels at CommBank Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Simione Laiafi will start the match at prop with Kobe Hetherington to come off the interchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Hart drops out of the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-year-old hooker Zaidas Muagututia (pronounced: Zay-dus moo-ong-goo-too-tee-ah) is on the extended bench and could make his NRL debut.<\/p>\n<p>A talented dummy half, Muagututia joined the Sea Eagles top 30 in 2026 and has made 27 appearances for Manly in the NSW Cup over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Manly on a two-year deal from Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs after playing a couple of seasons in the lower grades for Parramatta Eels.<\/p>\n<p>The Sea Eagles are aiming for their 1000th win in the Club\u2019s 80th anniversary season.<\/p>\n<p>Team List: Round 18 vs Eels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manly Warringah Sea Eagles squad has been locked in for Sunday&#8217;s Round 18 match against the Parramatta Eels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-781204","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\/781204","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=781204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}