{"id":898563,"date":"2026-09-20T05:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898563\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T05:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:36:22","slug":"nrl-finals-2026-live-updates-new-zealand-warriors-v-newcastle-knights-scores-tickets-schedule-time-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898563\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL finals 2026 LIVE updates: New Zealand Warriors v Newcastle Knights scores, tickets, schedule, time, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some great news for Warriors fans. Young star Leka Halasima will start the match after having been named in jersey 22 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>After feeling some tightness in his hamstring immediately before the Warriors loss to the Dolphins last weekend, doubts remained over whether he would return today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leka Halasima in action against the Broncos. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789882582_760_af5f25732d7a2b187f26c5ddabd1daef6be7a40b.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Leka Halasima in action against the Broncos. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>After taking little time to become one of the most exciting players in the competition, the 20-year-old, who will today play game 50 of his NRL career, is sure to excite the home fans.<\/p>\n<p>In other Warriors news, veteran winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak also make a return to the starting side in the No.23 jersey.<\/p>\n<p>There are no changes to the team the Knights announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is some great news for Warriors fans. Young star Leka Halasima will start the match after having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-898563","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\/898563","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=898563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}