{"id":83590,"date":"2025-08-20T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83590\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:39:09","slug":"nrlw-match-preview-round-8-v-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83590\/","title":{"rendered":"NRLW Match Preview: Round 8 v Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dragons make the trip north this Saturday for a Round 8 face-off against the Titans on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>KEY INFO<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com.au\/nrl-titans-v-warriors-round-25-robina-gold-coast-23-08-2025\/event\/2500618DD3C012AF?utm_source=nrl&amp;utm_medium=network&amp;utm_campaign=NRLW25&amp;_gl=1*1bj01u*_gcl_au*MTMwNDE2NjUxMC4xNzU0Mjg1NDA0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Tickets<\/a><br \/>\nDate Saturday, August 23rd<br \/>\nVenue Cbus Super Stadium, Gold Coast<br \/>\nWatch\u00a0Nine, 9Now, Kayo &amp; Foxtel<br \/>\n2:30PM\u00a0Box Office Opens<br \/>\n3:00PM\u00a0Gates Open<br \/>\n3:15PM NRLW | Dragons v Titans<br \/>\n5:30PM NRL | Titans v Warriors<\/p>\n<p>DRAGONS DESPERATE TO BOUNCE BACK<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Cross&#8217; Dragons will be eager to respond off the back of a narrow loss to the Wests Tigers in Round 7.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, they face a similarly desperate Gold Coast side who have not tasted victory since Round 4.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides find themselves just one win back of the sixth-place Warriors with four matches to play.<\/p>\n<p>BROWNE MAKING STRIDES<\/p>\n<p>Keele Browne has pieced together a strong campaign thus far and will look to continue her run of form come Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Milton-Ulladulla junior was this week also nominated for the Veronica White Medal for Woman of the Year in recognition of her diligent work in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside her community commitments, Browne was also selected in the NRL\u2019s Academic Team of the Year having completed a Bachelor of Exercise Science at the University of Wollongong demonstrating to aspiring athletes the importance of balancing education and elite sport.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage all Dragons fans to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrl.com\/community\/awards\/veronica-white-medal\/2025-nominees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vote for Keele<\/a>\u00a0for this year\u2019s Veronica White Medal!<\/p>\n<p>      &#13;<br \/>\n        599&#8243;, &#8220;&gt;809&#8221;, &#8220;&gt;959&#8243;]&#8221;<br \/>\n          data-eqio-prefix=&#8221;video-post-screen&#8221;<br \/>\n          ref=&#8221;root&#8221;<br \/>\n        &gt;<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n              &#13;<br \/>\n                  Up Next&#13;<br \/>\n              &#13;<br \/>\n              &#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-content__topic o-topic u-color-white u-display-flex u-flex-wrap-yes u-font-weight-500\" v-if=\"isTvContent\">&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                \/&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;\n              <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n              &#13;<br \/>\n              &#13;<br \/>\n              &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                  &#13;<br \/>\n                  &#13;<br \/>\n                    Replay&#13;<br \/>\n                  &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                  &#13;<br \/>\n                  &#13;<br \/>\n                    Play Next&#13;<br \/>\n                  &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;\n              <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"video-player__title\">\u2018Feeling really comfortable\u2019: Browne continuing to improve<\/p>\n<p>TEAM NEWS<br \/>\nDRAGONS<\/p>\n<p>The Dragons will be without Hannah Southwell (suspension) and Ahlivia Ingram (head knock).<br \/>\nBronte Wilson comes into the run-on side with rookie Tahlia O\u2019Brien coming onto the interchange alongside Trinity Tauaneai (shoulder).<\/p>\n<p>TITANS<\/p>\n<p>Captain Georgia Hale has been named to start at lock having played hooker last week with Lily Kolc this week named to start in the No.9 jersey.<br \/>\nSienna Lofipo is named to start up front with Laika Clarke moving back to the bench.<br \/>\nNiall Williams-Guthrie has been named among the reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dragons make the trip north this Saturday for a Round 8 face-off against the Titans on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-83590","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\/83590","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=83590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}