{"id":25651,"date":"2025-07-27T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25651\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:31:10","slug":"nrl-news-2025-haumole-olakauatu-shoulder-injury-manly-vs-bulldogs-anthony-sebild-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25651\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2025 | Haumole Olakau’atu shoulder injury; Manly vs Bulldogs; Anthony Sebild press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shoulder injury epidemic has continued in the NRL after Haumole Olakau’atu left the field with a dislocation against the Bulldogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Olakau’atu attempted to tackle Viliame Kikau in the second half and fell out of it in agony, immediately wincing on impact.<\/p>\n

“There’s not much in it but when you’ve got an injury to the shoulder there doesn’t need too much,” Billy Slater said on Nine.<\/p>\n

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“He got hit on the right spot there, he’ll be in a fair bit of pain.”<\/p>\n

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Haumole Olakau’atu leaves the field. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The shoulder was put back in by medical staff but Olakau’atu will still need scans.<\/p>\n

Jahrome Hughes, Tevita Tatola and Egan Butcher all suffered shoulder injuries in round 21.<\/p>\n

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Post-match, Manly coach Anthony Seibold confirmed the worst with the injury the second for his forward this year.<\/p>\n

“Our medical staff said to Haumole and myself there’s a risk when you dislocate your shoulder, when you do it the first time there’s a 90 per cent risk you do it again,” Seibold said.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to take that risk. He had six weeks reconditioning there and trained fully there for the last two weeks so he just got his shoulder in an awkward position. I would expect he’d have an operation when appropriate, we won’t see him again this year.<\/p>\n

“It was always a calculated risk. For a player of his quality and standing in our team, we wanted to pursue that risk.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shoulder injury epidemic has continued in the NRL after Haumole Olakau’atu left the field with a dislocation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-25651","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\/25651","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=25651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}