{"id":367485,"date":"2026-04-07T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367485\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:47:09","slug":"nrl-team-list-chanel-harris-tavita-back-for-luke-metcalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367485\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL Team List: Chanel Harris-Tavita back for Luke Metcalf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Standoff Chanel Harris-Tavita\u2019s inclusion for the injured Luke Metcalf is the only change to the starting lineup named for the One New Zealand Warriors\u2019 round six NRL encounter with the Storm at AAMI Park in Melbourne on Saturday (7.35pm kick-off local time; 9.35pm NZT).<\/p>\n

With a hamstring injury sidelining playmaker Metcalf, Harris-Tavita is back in the #6 jersey he wore in the first three rounds alongside halfback Tanah Boyd.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Harris-Tavita will make his 98th career appearance on Saturday night which would leave him in line to reach his 100-game milestone in the Anzac Day clash against the Dolphins at Hnry Stadium in Wellington.<\/p>\n

Centre Adam Pompey has been named after being charged with a grade two dangerous contact offence following Sunday\u2019s 22-36 loss to the Cronulla Sutherland.<\/p>\n

A guilty plea has been entered to the incident involving Sharks back rower Briton Nikora but the grading is being disputed at a judiciary hearing this evening.<\/p>\n

The first four players listed on the interchange in jerseys 14-17 are the same as the quartet used against the Sharks \u2013 hooker Sam Healey, back rower Marata Niukore and middle forwards Demitric Vaimauga and Tanner Stowers-Smith.<\/p>\n

Back rower Eddie Ieremia-Toeava is again named as a reserve while winger Alofi\u2019ana Khan-Pereira takes the sixth spot.<\/p>\n

The three players in the extended squad are second rower Morgan Gannon, standoff Luke Hanson and centre Ali Leiataua, who were all on New South Wales Cup duty in last Saturday\u2019s win over Newtown.<\/p>\n


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The Warriors and Melbourne both go into the contest coming off disappointing results.<\/p>\n

After averaging 40 points a game in their three season-opening wins over the Sydney Roosters, Canberra and Newcastle, the One New Zealand Warriors have suffered back-to-back losses to the Wests Tigers and Cronulla-Sutherland to slip to fifth.<\/p>\n

The Storm were the early pacesetters scoring 98 points in two big wins over Parramatta (52-4) and St George Illawarra (46-20) but have, for the first time since 2002, suffered three straight losses to Brisbane (14-18), North Queensland (24-28) and Penrith (10-50).<\/p>\n

No matter what the Storm\u2019s form might be, they remain the Warriors\u2019 most challenging opponents with Melbourne boasting 17 straight wins since 2015, the longest active head-to-head streak in the competition.<\/p>\n

This is the third time in the last four seasons that the Warriors face the Storm only once in the regular, each of the one-off meetings being scheduled in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Standoff Chanel Harris-Tavita\u2019s inclusion for the injured Luke Metcalf is the only change to the starting lineup named…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-367485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367485","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=367485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}