Record haul puts Voro in mix for RLWC2026 Team of the Week

Kumuls star Gairo Voro has become the first player nominated for the RLWC2026 Team of the Week from the Championship after scoring a record 44 points for London Broncos.

Voro, who last week signed with the PNG Chiefs along with Kumuls and Broncos team-mates Morea Morea and Finley Glare, celebrated the deal by crossing for seven tries and kicking eight goals in the 76-18 defeat of Hunslet.

In doing so he equalled Bevan French's seven try haul for Wigan against Hull FC in 2022 and bettered Josh Addo-Carr's six tries for the Storm against South Sydney in 2021.

The Australian record for most tries in a match is held by Immortal Frank Burge, who crossed eight times for Glebe against University in 1920, while in England,  Huddersfield's Lionel Cooper scored 10 tries against Keighley in 1951. 

Another Immortal, Dave Brown, holds the Australian pointscoring record after scoring five tries and kicking 15 goals for a 45-point haul for Eastern Suburbs Roosters in 1935.

Panthers winger Thomas Jenkins is closing in on another of Brown's record for the most tries in a season after crossing for a hat-trick against the Rabbitohs last weekend to take his tally to 25 so far this year. Brown scored 38 tries in 1935.

Cook Islands star Valentine Holmes scored two tries in his best performance of the season as the Dragons downed Wests Tigers, with team-mates Mat Feagai, Toby Couchman, Hamish Stewart and Dylan Egan also earning Team of the Week nominations.

New Zealand playmaker Dylan Brown and hooker Phoenix Crossland were among the Newcastle players nominated for their roles in helping to end the Dolphins' eight match winnings streak.

Tonga five-eighth Isaiah Iongi, who plays fullback for the Eels, was another player to star in Round 18 NRL matches.

Each week, fans vote for their RLWC2026 Team of the Week from players nominated after the previous weekend's NRL and Super League matches who are eligible for the 10 nations contesting Rugby League World Cup 2026. 

Among the players nominated for the World Cup Team of the Week are:

• Kiwis playmaker Dylan Brown, hookers Phoenix Crossland (both Knights) and Jeremy Marshall-King, winger Jamayne Isaako, lock Xavier Willison (Broncos) and prop Jack Williams (Eels),
• Toa Samoa centre Mat Feagai (Dragons), prop Terrell May (Wests Tigers), winger Greg Marzhew (Knights), secondrower Connelly Lemuelu (Dolphins) and halfback Ronald Volkman (Eels);
• England centres Herbie Farnworth (Dolphins) and Ash Handley (Leeds), playmaker Jack Farrimond, hooker Brad O'Neill (Wigan), fullback Olly Ashall-Bott (Toulouse) and prop Caleb Hamlin-Uele (Wakefield);
• Tonga back Isaiah Iongi (Eels), centre Paul Alamoti (Panthers) wingers Sione Katoa (Sharks) and Lehi Hopoate, prop Taniela Paseka (both Sea Eagles) and secondrower Kulekefu Finefeuaiki (Dolphins);
• Cook Islands centres KL Iro (Sharks) and Val Holmes (Dragons). Broncos forward Xavier Willison is also eligible for the Aitu;
• Papua New Guinea halves Gairo Voro (London Broncos), Lachlan Lam and hooker Edwain Ipape (both Leigh);
  Lebanon playmaker Adam Doueihi, lock Alex Twal (both Wests Tigers) and centre Jordan Samrani (Eels);
• Fiji fullback Jahream Bula (Wests Tigers) and secondrower Kitione Kautoga (Eels), and;
• France secondrower Matthieu Jussaume (Toulouse).

Vote for the RLWC2026 Team of the Week