Martin returns for Warriors clash with Knights
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Halfback Te Maire Martin comes back from injury with winger Luke Laulilii called up to make his club debut in the New Zealand Warriors’ round 26 NRL clash against the Newcastle Knights at Go Media Stadium on Sunday.
Martin returns in the #7 jersey after missing the last three matches against Penrith,
Brisbane and South Sydney with a hamstring injury.
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He’s reunited in the halves with his regular partner Chanel Harris-Tavita who filled in at
halfback for 60 minutes against the Broncos and then started at #7 for the first time
since 2021 in Saturday night’s 45-26 win over the Rabbitohs.
Brought in to replace the injured Dallin Watene-Zelezniak (broken clavicle) on the right
wing is Laulilii, who’ll become the Warriors’ 300th NRL player on Sunday.
Signed from Wests Tigers in June for the rest of the season, the Perth Bears-bound 20-
year-old scored 10 tries in 17 NRL appearances for his former club.
In six New South Wales Cup outings since joining the Warriors. he has averaged 180
metres a game, scored two tries and made 22 tackle breaks.
As well as Martin, regular right edge centre Ali Leiataua is back after missing the South
Sydney encounter through illness.
The Warriors will field the same starting forward pack for the seventh match on end with
a front row of James Fisher-Harris, Wayde Egan and Mitchell Barnett, Kurt Capewell and
Jacob Laban in the second round and Erin Clark at loose forward.
Egan and Clark will
continue their run of playing every game of the season, this being their 23rd on end.
The Warriors go into the contest leading the competition, one of three teams on 38
points but narrowly ahead of second-placed Penrith on points for and against.
Warriors:
1.Taine Tuaupiki, 2. Luke Laulilii, 3. Ali Leiataua, 4. Leka Halasima, 5. Alofiana Khan-Pereira, 6. Chanel Harris-Tavita, 7.Te Maire Martin, 8. James Fisher-Harris, 9. Wayde Egan, 10. Mitchell Barnett, 11. Kurt Capewell, 12. Jacob Laban, 13. Erin Clark
Interchange: 14. Sam Healey, 15. Tanner Stowers-Smith, 16. Demitric Vaimauga, 17. Eddie Ieremia-Toeava, 18. Adam Pompey, 19.Morgan Gannon
