Head Coach Shane Flanagan has finalised his squad to face the Bulldogs in our 2026 season opener at Las Vegas\u2019 Allegiant Stadium.<\/p>\n
24-Hour Update:\u00a0Hame Sele starts at lock with Hamish Stewart reverting to the interchange. Tyrell Sloan drops out with Lyhkan King-Togia and Mathew Feagai rounding out the six-man bench.<\/p>\n
The clash marks perhaps the biggest opener in club history as one of the sport\u2019s fiercest rivalries heads stateside to The Entertainment Capital of the World.<\/p>\n
Setu Tu has been named to make his NRL debut on the wing whilst Daniel Atkinson makes his club debut in the No.7 jersey partnering Kyle Flanagan.<\/p>\n
It marks the culmination of a long and arduous journey for the Samoan native who made the move to the club this offseason just gone.<\/p>\n
Ryan Couchman has been named in jersey No.17 as he looks to make his NRL return after suffering an ACL injury 12 months ago.<\/p>\n
Josh Kerr has been named on the interchange as he eyes his first outing as a Dragon since Round 15, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head Coach Shane Flanagan has finalised his squad to face the Bulldogs in our 2026 season opener at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-308136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}