{"id":87248,"date":"2025-08-22T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87248\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:22:56","slug":"nrl-2025-titans-locked-in-hasler-confirms-trios-return-for-saturday-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87248\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2025: Titans, Locked in: Hasler confirms trio’s return for Saturday showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Des Hasler has confirmed Brian Kelly, Jojo Fifita and Klese Haas will return to strengthen his side for Saturday’s showdown against the Warriors at Cbus Super Stadium.<\/p>\n

The trio missed last week’s trip to Sydney against the Sharks but come in to the Titans coach’s delight, expecting a tough battle against New Zealand after getting the two points across the ditch four weeks ago.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a few back coming back in, so that adds to the stability of the side,” Hasler said after Friday’s captain’s run.<\/p>\n

“We want to finish the year strong, but it will be a hard game. They’re vying for a top four position, but we know we’re competitive and we need to be that tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

Hoping to keep their strong record against the Wahs intact, having won six of their past seven games against their Trans Tasman rivals, Hasler has kept his team 1-17 with Tony Francis and Tukimihia Simpkins remaining in the extended squad – Jacob Alick-Wiencke, Sean Mullany and Tom Weaver making way from the reserves ahead of game day.<\/p>\n

The club released their final allocation of tickets for the NRL \/ NRLW double header with a bumper crowd expected – all fans looking to buy tickets are encouraged to pre-purchase online via Ticketmaster<\/a> to avoid disappointment.<\/p>\n

Kick-off is at 5.30pm on Saturday – the second of two games at Cbus Super Stadium, Gold Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Des Hasler has confirmed Brian Kelly, Jojo Fifita and Klese Haas will return to strengthen his side for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-87248","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\/87248","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=87248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}