NRL 2024, St George Illawarra Dragons, Manly Sea Eagles, round 4, team lists, injuries, updates, stats

Author: NRL.com
Timestamp: Sat 30 Mar 2024, 04:33 PM

Both coming off Round 3 losses, the Dragons and Sea Eagles will be looking to get their 2024 campaigns back on track when they meet at WIN Stadium on Easter Saturday.

Letting go of an early 18-4 lead before the Cowboys ran riot and piled on four tries in the second half, the Dragons will need to ensure they can maintain an 80-minute performance and ice their opportunities with the ball if they want to mix it with an in-form Manly side.

Not only will the Dragons be opening the gates to WIN Stadium for 2024 but there will also be plenty of extra motivation with coach Shane Flanagan coming up against Anthony Seibold for the first time since stepping out of Manly's assistant coach role.

Meanwhile, the Sea-Eagles are proving to be the sleeping giant of the competition this year and despite falling to their first loss, will still take plenty of positives from their 28-24 clash with the Eels on Sunday.

Having been tested against several of the competition's heavyweights, Manly will fancy their chances against the Dragons if they can hold onto the football and rue the errors which creeped into their game last week.

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Team News

Dragons: A switch on game day with Raymond Faitala-Mariner coming into the starting side and Tom Eisenhuth going to the bench. Francis Molo (suspension), Jacob Liddle (concussion), Hame Sele (hamstring) and Jaydn Su'A (quad) are all back on deck in a boost for Shane Flanagan's side. Jesse Marschke remains on the bench and will likely split time with Liddle in the hooking rotation after playing 57 minutes there last week.

Sea Eagles: Winger Tommy Talau has come into the side an hour before kick-off having recovered from an ankle injury. Raymond Tuaimalo Vaega drops out. Coach Anthony Siebold confirmed on Friday that Tof Sipley would come into the 17 having been named among the reserves on Tuesday. Ethan Bullemor drops to 18th man.

Round 4 - Round 4 - Saturday 30 Mar

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Dragons

Sea Eagles

Team Lists

Backs

Fullback for Dragons is number 1 Tyrell Sloan

Fullback for Sea Eagles is number 1 Tom Trbojevic
Winger for Dragons is number 2 Zac Lomax

Winger for Sea Eagles is number 5 Jaxson Paulo
Centre for Dragons is number 3 Mosese Suli

Centre for Sea Eagles is number 3 Tolutau Koula
Centre for Dragons is number 4 Jack Bird

Centre for Sea Eagles is number 4 Reuben Garrick
Winger for Dragons is number 5 Mikaele Ravalawa

Winger for Sea Eagles is number 19 Tommy Talau
Five-Eighth for Dragons is number 6 Kyle Flanagan

Five-Eighth for Sea Eagles is number 6 Luke Brooks
Halfback for Dragons is number 7 Ben Hunt

Halfback for Sea Eagles is number 7 Daly Cherry-Evans

Forwards

Prop for Dragons is number 8 Francis Molo

Prop for Sea Eagles is number 8 Taniela Paseka
Hooker for Dragons is number 9 Jacob Liddle

Hooker for Sea Eagles is number 9 Lachlan Croker
Prop for Dragons is number 10 Blake Lawrie

Prop for Sea Eagles is number 10 Josh Aloiai
2nd Row for Dragons is number 11 Luciano Leilua

2nd Row for Sea Eagles is number 11 Haumole Olakau'atu
2nd Row for Dragons is number 12 Jaydn Su'a

2nd Row for Sea Eagles is number 12 Ben Trbojevic
Lock for Dragons is number 17 Raymond Faitala-Mariner

Lock for Sea Eagles is number 13 Jake Trbojevic

Interchange

Interchange for Dragons is number 13 Tom Eisenhuth

Interchange for Sea Eagles is number 14 Karl Lawton
Interchange for Dragons is number 14 Jesse Marschke

Interchange for Sea Eagles is number 15 Corey Waddell
Interchange for Dragons is number 15 Jack De Belin

Interchange for Sea Eagles is number 17 Nathan Brown
Interchange for Dragons is number 16 Hame Sele

Interchange for Sea Eagles is number 22 Toafofoa Sipley

Reserves

Replacement for Dragons is number 19 Michael Molo

Replacement for Sea Eagles is number 16 Ethan Bullemor

Match Officials

Referee: Ashley Klein
Touch Judge: Dave Munro
Senior Review Official: Kasey Badger

Last updated: 4/2/2024 12:18:31 AM

Stat Attack

The Dragons have won only one of their past six games at WIN Stadium.
Sea Eagles halfback Daly Cherry-Evans will equal Cliff Lyons’ record of 309 appearances for Manly.
Dragons winger Mikaele Ravalawa has scored nine tries in his past eight games at WIN Stadium.
Manly centre Reuben Garrick requires two points for 1,000 NRL points.
The Dragons have conceded 84 points in their past two games.

Stats supplied by David Middleton, League Information Services, author of the official annual of the NRL.

Round 4 - Round 4 - Saturday 30 Mar

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Dragons

Sea Eagles

Venue: WIN Stadium, Wollongong

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