{"id":339004,"date":"2025-12-10T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339004\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:23:07","slug":"super-league-newcomers-suffer-injury-blow-ahead-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339004\/","title":{"rendered":"Super League newcomers suffer injury blow ahead of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toulouse Olympique hooker Calum Gahan will be sidelined for the first few months of the 2026 Super League season having required surgery on his foot.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Gahan has been with Toulouse since the start of the 2023 campaign, when he joined the French side from then-fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/championship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Championship<\/a> outfit London Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>A product of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/nrl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> side North Queensland Cowboys\u2019 youth system, Gahan ruptured his ACL this year just four games into Olympique\u2019s season.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, he missed almost the entirety of their title-winning campaign: with Sylvain Houles\u2019 side eventually promoted back into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/super-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a>, which expands to 14 teams next year, via selection by an independent panel.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the 28-year-old will miss another chunk of action, with his injury woes continuing.<\/p>\n<p>JOIN OUR WHATSAPP COMMUNITY!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DkyqlqQEvejG4RU3K5Kuur#new_tab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click HERE to join and have the biggest rugby league exclusives delivered straight to your device!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Super League newcomers Toulouse suffer injury blow ahead of 2026 as overseas star sidelined<\/p>\n<p>Born in Darwin, Gahan is a three-time Scotland international having represented the Bravehearts at the delayed 2021 Rugby League World Cup via his heritage.<\/p>\n<p>He shared the news of his latest injury setback in a video posted on social media by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/tag\/toulouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toulouse<\/a> in which he addressed the club\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n<p>In that video, the hooker provided a prognosis as he explained: \u201cI\u2019m in my fifth week of rehabilitation now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe you remember last year, on matchday four, I ruptured my Achilles tendon. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t play last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, I have another problem with my \u2018haglund\u2019, it\u2019s the bone at the back of my foot, and to fix that I had to get surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s mainly why I\u2019m not training with the guys right now, but I hope that this year, around May, I\u2019ll be able to play again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc26 \ud835\udc1a \ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc27 \ud835\udc26\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc20\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc29\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc2b \ud835\udc2f\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc2c \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Notre talonneur, Calum Gahan, vous parle de sa r\u00e9\u00e9ducation.<br \/>Envoyez-lui toute votre force dans les commentaires pour le revoir au plus vite sur les terrains \ud83d\udc99<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TOgether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TOgether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/65kw76PwMq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/65kw76PwMq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toulouse Olympique (@TOXIII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TOXIII\/status\/1998468612978299143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having played for Norths Devils in the Queensland Cup before moving to the UK with London in 2022, Gahan now has 62 appearances to his name across all competitions in the British club game.<\/p>\n<p>He has scored nine tries in the process, including five in his 50 games to date for Toulouse, and added: \u201cI can\u2019t wait to start again and to be able to play with the guys again, with my brothers, and to be able to play for the club again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you very much, let\u2019s go TO!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toulouse Olympique hooker Calum Gahan will be sidelined for the first few months of the 2026 Super League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-339004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339004","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=339004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}