{"id":583894,"date":"2026-08-29T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/583894\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:48:10","slug":"cleary-to-debut-as-warriors-forced-into-late-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/583894\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleary to debut as Warriors forced into late changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jett Cleary will debut for the Warriors on Sunday in an unexpected call-up after late injury changes.<\/p>\n

The club says it’s decided not to risk its more experienced halves after Chanel Harris-Tavita suffered a minor injury. <\/p>\n

Te Maire Martin, who had been named to start, needs more time to return from his hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Cleary is the son of former Warriors coach Ivan Cleary and the brother of Panthers superstar Nathan. <\/p>\n

He will play in 7 alongside Luke Hanson, who is only making his third NRL appearance in the standoff position.<\/p>\n

The Warriors pointing out its the least experienced starting halves combination since Brock Lamb (one game) and Jack Cogger (debut) lined up for the Knights against the Sharks in 2016. <\/p>\n

Winger Luke Laulilii is also on debut, replacing Dallin Watene-Zelezniak who broke his clavicle<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

The Warriors host the Newcastle Knights at Mt Smart Stadium<\/a> at 4pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jett Cleary will debut for the Warriors on Sunday in an unexpected call-up after late injury changes. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,3006],"class_list":["post-583894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583894","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=583894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}