{"id":27812,"date":"2025-07-28T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27812\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:53:09","slug":"nrl-news-2025-connor-tracey-injury-canterbury-bulldogs-phil-gould-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27812\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2025 | Connor Tracey injury; Canterbury Bulldogs; Phil Gould comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> general manager Phil Gould<\/a> has revealed Connor Tracey was sent to hospital after his side’s win over Manly on Sunday<\/a> with a gruesome injury.<\/p>\n

The fullback played the full game but Gould confirmed he had severe abdominal pain in the aftermath, specifically a problem with his “inferior epigastric artery”.<\/p>\n

Gould said on Nine’s 100% Footy he’d had an abdominal strain over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

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“They were worried he would need surgery … Apparently it’s just the artery and doesn’t need surgery, but he needs three weeks’ complete rest before he can even get back into light training,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Connor Tracey playing against Manly.\u00a0NRL Photos<\/p>\n

Tracey’s injury now puts a question mark over his chance at playing finals.<\/p>\n

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There are still six rounds to be played in the season before week one of the finals with Gould “hopeful” he’ll be back.<\/p>\n

“That’s only hopeful at the moment but it’s bad luck for Connor and bad luck for the team,” he said.<\/p>\n

Blake Taaffe would be a possible replacement for Tracey, but he’s spent a month on the sidelines with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canterbury Bulldogs general manager Phil Gould has revealed Connor Tracey was sent to hospital after his side’s win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-27812","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\/27812","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=27812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}