Adams and O’Donnell added to bench

The Newcastle Knights have named an 18-man squad for Sunday’s Round 18 clash against the South Sydney Rabbitohs at ANZ Stadium.

Darius Boyd is named at fullback in place of Kevin Naiqama and Zeb Taia replaces Kade Snowden in the front row.

The Knights have added Chris Adams, who has played three NRL games this season, and Kyle O’Donnell to an extended bench.

O’Donnell, who is yet to make his NRL debut, has spent this week in camp with the NSW Cup Representative team and will play in the curtain raiser game to Wednesday’s Origin decider at Suncorp Stadium.

The results of Snowden's scans on his knee confirmed he will be sidelined for 4-6 weeks.

Round 18 NRL:

Knights
1. Darius Boyd
2. James McManus
3. Dane Gagai
4. Timana Tahu
5. Akuila Uate
6. Jarrod Mullen
7. Tyrone Roberts
8. Zeb Taia
9. Danny Buderus (c)
10. Willie Mason
11. Chris Houston
12. Joel Edwards
13. Neville Costigan
Interchange
14. Chris Adams
15. Zane Tetevano
16. Adam Cuthbertson
17. Alex McKinnon
18. Kyle O’Donnell

The Rabbitohs have named an extended 19-man ahead of Sunday afternoons game against the Knights.

Coach Michael Maguire has picked Greg Inglis at full back and moved Shaune Corrigan to the six-man bench.

Rabbitohs
1) Greg Inglis
2) Nathan Merritt
3) Andrew Everingham
4) Dylan Farrell
5) Justin Hunt
6) John Sutton
7) Adam Reynolds
8) Luke Burgess
9) Issac Luke
10) Sam Burgess
11) Chris McQueen
12) Dave Taylor
13) Michael Crocker
Interchange:
14) Jason Clark
15) Dave Tyrrell
16) Ben Lowe
17) Nathan Peats
18) George Burgess
19) Shaune Corrigan

Newcastle Knights v South Sydney Rabbitohs
Date: Sunday July 8
Kick off: 2pm
Venue: ANZ Stadium
Twitter hashtag: #goKnights