{"id":18640,"date":"2025-07-24T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18640\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:46:18","slug":"melbourne-storm-halfback-jahrome-hughes-suffers-dislocated-shoulder-vs-sydney-roosters-round-21-results-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18640\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm halfback Jahrome Hughes suffers dislocated shoulder vs Sydney Roosters; Round 21 results, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne<\/a>‘s premiership hopes have been dealt a major blow on Thursday night, with superstar halfback Jahrome Hughes suffering a dislocated shoulder.<\/p>\n

The reigning Dally M Medal winner was forced from the field early in the second half of his side’s victory against the Sydney Roosters<\/a> and looked to be in total agony.<\/p>\n

Hughes reached out to try and make a tackle on a runaway James Tedesco and landed awkwardly, immediately clutching at his shoulder.<\/p>\n

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Jahrome Hughes lands awkwardly on his shoulder\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“If that’s a dislocated shoulder or something of that nature, this would be a massive moment in Melbourne’s season,” Mat Thompson said on Nine.<\/p>\n

“I think the Storm faithful are collectively grimacing, along with Jahrome Hughes who is being helped off the field here \u2026 this looks very dire.<\/p>\n

“You never knock a champion team, but Melbourne’s premiership hopes might be walking off with Jahrome Hughes here. That did not look good.”<\/p>\n

Watch the 2025 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

League legend Andrew Johns admitted it was a tough sight for Hughes and the club.<\/p>\n

“Melbourne Storm fans, hold your breath,” he said on commentary.<\/p>\n

“Look at his face, he knows something is going on.<\/p>\n

“They have been short favourites to win the competition all year and rightly so – but to win a competition, you’ve gotta have luck with injuries.”<\/p>\n

News then surfaced mid-way through the second half that the Storm had been forced to call an ambulance for the 30-year-old playmaker.<\/p>\n

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Jahrome Hughes walks off with Storm trainers\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Speaking to media after the thrilling 34-30 win, head coach Craig Bellamy admitted there could be a “bigger problem” for the Kiwis halfback.<\/p>\n

“He’s gone to hospital, the doctor’s gone with him – not really sure,” Bellamy said. <\/p>\n

“It’s dislocated and they couldn’t get it in. He will probably have to go under [anesthetic] to get it in. Whether he’s got a crack in it as well, we might not know until tomorrow. You’d like to think they will get it back in tonight. <\/p>\n

“I’ve experienced it myself, I had both my shoulders reconstructed. I think the longer they are out, it’s a bigger problem. The longer it’s out, the more it stretches the ligaments and muscles around the joint … I don’t think it’s overly good news. <\/p>\n

“He’s in the best care and it’s just finding out the severity of it. Has he done other damage other than just dislocating it? Until they have a scan, we aren’t gonna know.<\/p>\n

“It’s obviously not good news, but we’re not quite sure the severity of it.”<\/p>\n

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Craig Bellamy speaks to media after his side’s round 21 win\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Melbourne were already without fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen due to a calf injury, while five-eighth Cameron Munster was unavailable on personal grounds.<\/p>\n

Johns pointed to young half Jonah Pezet as a potential replacement in the No.7 jumper, while utility Tyran Wishart could also be an option.<\/p>\n

“Their saving grace is they signed the young star Jonah Pezet,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He looked like he was going elsewhere, but he decided to stay on.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne‘s premiership hopes have been dealt a major blow on Thursday night, with superstar halfback Jahrome Hughes suffering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-18640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}