{"id":410093,"date":"2024-07-07T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410093"},"modified":"2024-07-07T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T11:05:23","slug":"star-axed-latrell-replacement-named-in-blues-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410093","title":{"rendered":"Star axed, Latrell replacement named in Blues shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSW Blues<\/a> coach Michael Maguire<\/a> has sprung a selection shock, dropping Haumole Olakau'atu for Origin III.<\/p>\n

The Manly second-rower will make way for Warriors forward Mitch Barnett who will make his Blues debut.<\/p>\n

Barnett has been a reserve squad member for the Blues in Origin I and II but his 208 run-metres and 51 tackles over 80 minutes against the Bulldogs on Saturday meant he had to be selected.<\/p>\n

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Bradman Best has also been recalled in the centres, replacing the injured Latrell Mitchell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Knights star made his debut in Origin III last year under Brad Fittler and scored a double.<\/p>\n

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Best suffered a hamstring injury earlier this year during Magic Round and didn't return for the Knights until \ufeffround 15, which saw him unavailable for the Origin opener.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old has been one of the Knights' best since coming back, notably scoring a double against Parramatta in round 17. \ufeff<\/p>\n

No reserves have been named by Maguire yet with the 20-man squad to be finalised by midday tomorrow. \ufeff<\/p>\n

NSW Blues Game 3 team\ufeff<\/h2>\n

1.<\/strong> Dylan Edwards\ufeff 2.<\/strong> Brian To'o 3.<\/strong> Bradman Best 4.<\/strong> Stephen Crichton 5.<\/strong> Zac Lomax 6.<\/strong> Jarome Luai 7.<\/strong> Mitchell Moses 8.<\/strong> Jake Trbojevic (c) 9.<\/strong> Reece Robson 10.<\/strong> Payne Haas 11.<\/strong> Liam Martin 12.<\/strong> Angus Crichton 13.<\/strong> Cameron Murray 14.<\/strong> Connor Watson 15.<\/strong> Isaah Yeo 16.<\/strong> Mitchell Barnett 17.<\/strong> Spencer Leniu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NSW Blues coach Michael Maguire has sprung a selection shock, dropping Haumole Olakau'atu for Origin III. The Manly second-rower will make way for Warriors forward […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410096,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410093\/revisions\/410096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/410095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}