Front rower James Gavet has been brought onto the bench for the Vodafone Warriors' 16th-round NRL clash against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at Mount Smart Stadium tonight (8.00pm kick-off; match day sponsor: Suzuki).
He joins hooker Nathaniel Roache and fellow props Sam Lisone and Albert Vete while Bunty Afoa is 18th man.
With Kieran Foran (thigh) out, Ata Hingano makes his fifth appearance of the season, starting at standoff.
VODAFONE WARRIORS v CANTERBURY-BANKSTOWN BULLDOGS
Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland
8.00pm, Friday, June 23
VODAFONE WARRIORS
1 ROGER TUIVASA-SHECK (c)
2 CHARNZE NICOLL-KLOKSTAD
3 BLAKE AYSHFORD
4 DAVID FUSITU’A
5 KEN MAUMALO
22 MAFOA’AEATA HINGANO
7 SHAUN JOHNSON
8 JACOB LILLYMAN
9 ISSAC LUKE
10 BEN MATULINO
11 BODENE THOMPSON
12 RYAN HOFFMAN
13 SIMON MANNERING
Interchange:
14 NATHANIEL ROACHE
15 SAM LISONE
16 ALBERT VETE
18 JAMES GAVET
HEAD COACH | STEPHEN KEARNEY
