NRL Confirmed Lineup: Warriors taking field as selected

NRL Confirmed Lineup: Warriors take field as selected

Author: Richard Becht & photosport.nz
Timestamp: Fri 5 Sep 2025, 05:00 PM

No late swaps from head coach Andrew Webster for the One New Zealand Warriors’ final regular season NRL encounter with the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles at 4 Pines Park in Sydney tonight (6.00pm kick-off local time; 8.00pm NZT).

Fullback Taine Tuaupiki is confirmed as 18th man with just-crowned New South Wales Cup player of the year Ken Going 19th man.

Prop Bunty Afoa, winger Edward Kosi and standoff Luke Hanson dropped off at the 24-hour deadline for lineups to be reduced last night.

The team is otherwise as named on Tuesday with hooker Sam Healey brought in to start in Wayde Egan’s absence.

A hip complaint has put Egan’s 150th milestone appearance on hold for a week allowing the 23-year-old rookie Healey to play his sixth NRL match.

Round 27 - Round 27 - Friday 5 Sep

Full Time

Sea Eagles

Warriors

Team Lists

Backs

Fullback for Sea Eagles is number 1 Tom Trbojevic

Fullback for Warriors is number 1 Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad
Winger for Sea Eagles is number 2 Jason Saab

Winger for Warriors is number 2 Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
Centre for Sea Eagles is number 3 Clayton Faulalo

Centre for Warriors is number 3 Adam Pompey
Centre for Sea Eagles is number 4 Tommy Talau

Centre for Warriors is number 4 Rocco Berry
Winger for Sea Eagles is number 5 Lehi Hopoate

Winger for Warriors is number 5 Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Five-Eighth for Sea Eagles is number 6 Luke Brooks

Five-Eighth for Warriors is number 6 Chanel Harris-Tavita
Halfback for Sea Eagles is number 7 Daly Cherry-Evans

Halfback for Warriors is number 7 Tanah Boyd

Forwards

Prop for Sea Eagles is number 8 Matthew Lodge

Prop for Warriors is number 8 James Fisher-Harris
Hooker for Sea Eagles is number 9 Jake Simpkin

Hooker for Warriors is number 9 Samuel Healey
Prop for Sea Eagles is number 10 Siosiua Taukeiaho

Prop for Warriors is number 10 Tanner Stowers-Smith
2nd Row for Sea Eagles is number 11 Corey Waddell

2nd Row for Warriors is number 11 Kurt Capewell
2nd Row for Sea Eagles is number 12 Ben Trbojevic

2nd Row for Warriors is number 12 Marata Niukore
Lock for Sea Eagles is number 13 Jazz Tevaga

Lock for Warriors is number 13 Erin Clark

Interchange

Interchange for Sea Eagles is number 14 Joey Walsh

Interchange for Warriors is number 14 Te Maire Martin
Interchange for Sea Eagles is number 15 Caleb Navale

Interchange for Warriors is number 15 Eddie Ieremia-Toeava
Interchange for Sea Eagles is number 16 Ethan Bullemor

Interchange for Warriors is number 16 Demitric Vaimauga
Interchange for Sea Eagles is number 18 Aaron Schoupp

Interchange for Warriors is number 17 Leka Halasima

Reserves

Replacement for Sea Eagles is number 21 Simione Laiafi

Replacement for Warriors is number 18 Taine Tuaupiki

Match Officials

Referee: Todd Smith
Touch Judge: Kasey Badger
Senior Review Official: Chris Butler

Last updated: 9/6/2025 10:02:02 PM

In the Warriors’ last two matches, Egan (28) has been replaced by utility Te Maire Martin after 50 minutes against the Titans and 52 minutes against the Eels.

Egan will now play his 150th game in the Warriors’ week one finals game next week.

Head coach Andrew Webster has made only one other change to the listed 17 with prop Tanner Stowers-Smith this week named in the starting lineup after being swapped in later off the interchange in the last two matches.

The 21-year-old clocked 41 minutes in two stints in the 32-18 win over the Titans and 39 minutes in a double shift in last week’s 22-26 defeat by Parramatta.

Webster has named the same backline for the third week since centre Rocco Berry made his return.

Brisbane’s win over the Storm last night ended the Warriors’ hopes of making a play to climb back into the top four. They will now finish fifth or sixth earning them a home final at Go Media Stadium next week (details to be confirmed).

The Warriors have reached the finals for the second time in three years, the club’s best achievement since making the top eight in 2010-2011 with only a one-off appearance in the finals in 2018 in the intervening years.

Adam Pompey, Marata Niukore, Leka Halasima and Erin Clark are on target to complete the feat of playing in each of the Warriors’ 24 regular season games with Pompey having been on the field for all 1842 minutes.

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Halasima and Pompey are in a tight race to be the team’s leading try scorer. Tuivasa-Sheck moved to 12 from 17 games with his try last week while Halasima also has 12 following his double with Pompey on 11 after his try (and he would have been on 12, too, but for his second would-be match-winning try being ruled out).

While the Warriors sit sixth on 34 points with 14 wins and nine losses, the Sea Eagles (11 wins, 12 losses) are two points behind the eighth-placed Roosters but with a vastly inferior points for and against differential of plus 20 points compared to the Roosters’ plus 102.