Jazz Tevaga and Joseph Vuna come into the starting line-up to replace the unavailable Issac Luke and Tohu Harris for the Vodafone Warriors’ 20th-round NRL encounter with the Gold Coast Titans at Cbus Super Stadium in Robina today (2.00pm kick-off local time; 4.00pm NZT).
With Tevaga and Vuna brought up from the bench, back-up hooker Karl Lawton and back rower Leivaha Pulu come onto the interchange alongside props Sam Lisone and Bunty Afoa.
Pulu returns to the NRL squad for the first time since the club’s sixth-round loss to the Broncos in April. Out for 14 weeks with a midfoot injury, he made his comeback with a 60-minute stint for the Vodafone Warriors’ Intrust Super Premiership side last Sunday.
The call-ups for Pulu and Lawton mean three former Titans will line up for the Vodafone Warriors against their old club today with prop Agnatius Paasi starting in the front row. All three joined the Vodafone Warriors this season from Gold Coast.
VODAFONE WARRIORS v GOLD COAST TITANS
2.00pm, Sunday, July 29, 2018
Cbus Super Stadium, Robina
VODAFONE WARRIORS
1 ROGER TUIVASA-SHECK (c)
2 DAVID FUSITU’A
3 GERARD BEALE
4 SOLOMONE KATA
5 KEN MAUMALO
6 BLAKE GREEN
7 SHAUN JOHNSON
8 JAMES GAVET
14 JAZZ TEVAGA
10 AGNATIUS PAASI
11 ISAIAH PAPALI’I
16 JOSEPH VUNA
13 SIMON MANNERING
Interchange:
15 SAM LISONE
17 BUNTY AFOA
20 KARL LAWTON
21 LEIVAHA PULU
HEAD COACH | STEPHEN KEARNEY
