The Vodafone Warriors will take the field as selected for their 21st-round NRL encounter with the Cronulla Sharks at Mount Smart Stadium today (5.00pm kick-off; match day sponsor: DEWALT; game day theme: Sir Peter Leitch Appreciation Day).
The Vodafone Warriors will field one of their youngest interchange combinations comprising hooker Siliva Havili (22), Raymond Faitala-Mariner (22), Charlie Gubb (25) and Sam Lisone (21) who have a total of less than 50 NRL appearances between them.
Lisone returns to the NRL side for the first time since the 14th-round encounter with the Sydney Roosters.
VODAFONE WARRIORS v CRONULLA SHARKS
Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland
5.00pm, Saturday, August 01
Referees: Ben Cummins and Gavin Morris
VODAFONE WARRIORS
1 SAM TOMKINS
2 KEN MAUMALO
3 KONRAD HURRELL
4 SOLOMONE KATA
5 MANU VATUVEI
6 CHAD TOWNSEND
7 TUIMOALA LOLOHEA
8 JACOB LILLYMAN
9 NATHAN FRIEND
10 ALBERT VETE
11 BEN MATULINO
12 SIMON MANNERING (c)
13 SEBASTINE IKAHIHIFO
Interchange:
14 SILIVA HAVILI
15 RAYMOND FAITALA-MARINER
16 CHARLIE GUBB
17 SAM LISONE
HEAD COACH: ANDREW McFADDEN
