{"id":916099,"date":"2026-10-04T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916099\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:28:10","slug":"sydney-roosters-win-2026-nrl-grand-final-because-they-have-the-greatest-athlete-in-the-world-playing-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916099\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Roosters Win 2026 NRL Grand Final Because They Have The Greatest Athlete In The World Playing For Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Sydney Roosters Win 2026 NRL Grand Final Because They Have The Greatest Athlete In The World Playing For Them<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload post-hero__img\"  data-  src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/5b\/43\/5b43ce77-2979-42d3-95f7-c7aac5a40f68\/content\/images\/size\/w100\/2026\/10\/marky-mark-1.jpg\" bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/marky-mark-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney Roosters Win 2026 NRL Grand Final Because They Have The Greatest Athlete In The World Playing For Them\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CLANCY OVERELL\u00a0|\u00a0Editor\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/clancy@betootaadvocate.com\/?ref=betootaadvocate.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONTACT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sydney Roosters have won the 2026 NRL grand final by one point, because they have a man named Mark Nawaqanitawase playing on the wing.<\/p>\n<p>He is the greatest athlete in Australia, and probably the world.<\/p>\n<p>He will now change codes to rugby union and will win us a Rugby World Cup next year at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg signup-success\">Great! You\u2019ve successfully signed up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg signin-success\">Welcome back! You&#8217;ve successfully signed in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg subscribe-success\">You&#8217;ve successfully subscribed to The Betoota Advocate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg link-expired\">Your link has expired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg checkout-success\">Success! Check your email for magic link to sign-in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg billing-success\">Success! Your billing info has been updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"notification-msg billing-cancel\">Your billing was not updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Roosters Win 2026 NRL Grand Final Because They Have The Greatest Athlete In The World Playing For&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-916099","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\/916099","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=916099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}