Eels v Raiders, Thursday 7.50pm at Cbus Super Stadium
Eels: Mitchell Moses has been ruled out of Thursday night s clash against the Raiders due to a back fracture suffered in Origin III so Jake Arthur will play halfback again this week.
Tom Opacic is also out and his place in the centres is taken by Will Penisini on debut, while Blake Ferguson has been recalled for his first game since round 12 at the expense of Haze Dunster.
Joey Lussick and Makahesi Makatoa were the first two players cut 24 hours before kick-off.
The Eels have won their past three games against the Raiders.
Manly take on the Red V at Cbus Super Stadium on Friday evening, just 48 hours after Trbojevic will be lining up for the Blues in State of Origin III with DCE in action for the Maroons.
Cherry-Evans had a wow of a game against the Cowboys in round 14 as he bounced back from his Origin disappointed while Hasler elected to rest Trbojevic rather than forcing him to back up two days after Origin I and said the plan would be the same this week. Yes, 100%, Hasler responded when asked if the same would apply this time around.
Pressed on whether that could be treated as confirmation Cherry-Evans would play and Trbojevic would not, Hasler said yep .
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Ronaldo Mulitalo is set to be denied a
State of Origin debut on the morning of the game after the NRL deemed him ineligible to represent
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No sooner was Mulitalo’s eligibility being officially questioned by the NSWRL after an article surfaced from 2019 claiming he moved to Queensland just shy of his 14th birthday.
Under current eligibility requirements, players must have lived in either NSW or Queensland prior to their 13th birthday.
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With no guarantees of a home game in this year’s State of Origin series, there will be no time like the present for the New South Wales Blues to wrap things up in straight sets against the Queensland Maroons when the two sides clash in Game 2 this evening at Suncorp Stadium.
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By the time it was all said and done, New South Wales had run up 50, and frankly, without any of their spine being amongst the best two players on ground.