{"id":904908,"date":"2026-09-25T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904908\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:24:17","slug":"nrl-finals-2026-live-updates-dolphins-v-sydney-roosters-preliminary-final-scores-results-teams-time-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904908\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL finals 2026 LIVE updates: Dolphins v Sydney Roosters preliminary final scores, results, teams, time, tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So that\u2019s two contentious bunker try decision tonight, both concerning a winger possibly going into touch before a try, but in fairness each team has benefited so it\u2019s probably all square regardless of whether you think the tries should have been denied or awarded.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark Nawaqanitawase gets his try assist away.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/31e6276ec44a657a8aa0253f9e866a32240832bc.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Mark Nawaqanitawase gets his try assist away.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the end-to-end action continues, Isaiya Katoa lobbing a dangerous kick over the top for a chasing Jack Bostock, but Salesi Foketi finds himself in the right place to clean it up near his own tryline.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins have had 20 tackles inside their opponents\u2019 20 metres, compared with the Roosters\u2019 nine, but haven\u2019t been able to convert that territory into points so far.<\/p>\n<p>Now Jamayne Isaako, who has scored all the Dolphins\u2019 points so far, pulls off a super leap to defuse a bomb down his own end. <\/p>\n<p>Roosters 22, Dolphins 10 with 28 minutes left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So that\u2019s two contentious bunker try decision tonight, both concerning a winger possibly going into touch before a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-904908","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\/904908","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=904908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}