{"id":462685,"date":"2026-02-06T17:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:32:30","slug":"young-demon-to-undergo-surgery-on-fractured-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462685\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Demon to undergo surgery on fractured arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Dee Jai Culley will undergo surgery on a fractured arm\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Jai Culley in action during the match between Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs at the MCG in round 22, 2025. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE&#8217;S Jai Culley could still be fit for round one despite fracturing his arm at training on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Culley has enjoyed a strong pre-season but will now be fighting to be fit for the Demons&#8217; opener against St Kilda on March 15.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old will undergo surgery on Saturday and is expected to be sidelined for about four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a really unfortunate incident, which took place during our training session on Friday,&#8221; Melbourne general manager of AFL football performance Alan Richardson said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Melbourne midfielder Jai Culley will have surgery tomorrow on his broken arm from training today. Will be missing at least the next four weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFLcomau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@AFLcomau<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Callum Twomey (@CalTwomey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalTwomey\/status\/2019699992248942660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 6, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scans have confirmed that this was an arm fracture and Jai will have surgery tomorrow to start recovery as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are optimistic that he will be able to maintain his fitness while he is in rehab program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have a clearer picture of his return to play timeline post-surgery, however, we expect this to be approximately four weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Culley got his chance at the Demons at the end of 2025, playing the final four games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dee Jai Culley will undergo surgery on a fractured arm Jai Culley in action during the match between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-462685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462685","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=462685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}