{"id":915343,"date":"2026-10-04T02:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915343\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T02:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:34:12","slug":"nrl-grand-final-2026-live-updates-newcastle-knights-look-to-claim-first-premiership-in-25-years-against-the-sydney-roosters-broncos-face-off-against-roosters-in-nrlw-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915343\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL grand final 2026 LIVE updates: Newcastle Knights look to claim first premiership in 25 years against the Sydney Roosters; Broncos face off against Roosters in NRLW final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate and Grant Smith attend every Queensland Cup home game to support the Redcliffe Dolphins, following a strict routine each time.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-match ritual is a beer with Grant\u2019s dad at the leagues club. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the boys win, we go back to the leagues club,\u201d he said. If they lose, however, it\u2019s home time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kate and Grant Smith at Accor Stadium.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/150c71287895386cce5fee7410e39d00df9a675d.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Kate and Grant Smith at Accor Stadium.Oscar Colman<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tight-knit community of Queensland Cup attendees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all take duck whistles,\u201d Kate said. \u201cI said we need to get like a dolphin squeaky toy rather than a duck whistle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The pair hope there\u2019s a good turn out for the first match of the day \u2014 the State Championship \u2014 and believe it\u2019ll be a close game against the Penrith Panthers. Grant is predicting a 32-30 scoreline their way. <\/p>\n<p>Then for the NRLW game, the pair will support the Roosters before swapping to Newcastle for the NRL grand final \u2014 anything to avoid cheering for their Queensland rivals. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a fan of the Broncos,\u201d Grant said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate and Grant Smith attend every Queensland Cup home game to support the Redcliffe Dolphins, following a strict&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-915343","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\/915343","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=915343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}