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Prop Tanner Stowers-Smith will start for the first time in the One New Zealand Warriors\u2019 round 15 NRL clash against Gold Coast at Cbus Super Stadium in Robina today (5.30pm kick-off local time; 7.30pm NZT).<\/p>\n
After nine games off the interchange, the 21-year-old rookie has been swapped with fellow 21-year-old Demitric Vaimauga, who moves to the bench.<\/p>\n
The 18th man is hooker Sam Healey.<\/p>\n
Omitted from the extended bench at the 24-hour mark last night were fullback Taine Tuaupiki, back rower Kalani Going and winger Edward Kosi.<\/p>\n
Kurt Capewell, Te Maire Martin and Rocco Berry all return from the injury list for a match the Warriors must win to protect their top four spot.<\/p>\n
After following concussion protocols last week, Capewell slots back into the second row while utility Martin is named on the interchange.<\/p>\n
The big inclusion is first-choice centre Berry for his 50th milestone appearance for the club in what will be just his seventh game of the season.<\/p>\n
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The 24-year-old last played in the club\u2019s 34-14 win over Wests Tigers in round 19 when a shoulder injury forced him off just 32 minutes into the game,<\/p>\n
With the Zae Wallace Shield at stake, Berry is reunited on the right edge with winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak while fellow centre Adam Pompey reverts to the left edge alongside Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.<\/p>\n
Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad, who has filled in at centre in the last three rounds, is moved back to his preferred spot at fullback.<\/p>\n
With prop Jackson Ford serving a three-match suspension, \u00a0Vaimauga was originally listed to make his first start of the season after being used off the bench in each of his 21 outings so far this season.<\/p>\n
Leka Halasima is on the interchange with Martin, Vaimauga and Eddie Ieremia-Toeava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prop Tanner Stowers-Smith will start for the first time in the One New Zealand Warriors\u2019 round 15 NRL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-89579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89579","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=89579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}