{"id":498745,"date":"2026-02-23T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498745\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:36:11","slug":"foxx-grounded-eels-flyer-set-to-miss-start-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498745\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxx grounded: Eels flyer set to miss start of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Addo-Carr looks set to miss the start of the NRL season for Parramatta after undergoing surgery on his thumb.<\/p>\n<p>Addo-Carr posted an image of himself wearing a hospital gown on Monday, with significant bandaging around his left hand and thumb, after going under the knife.<\/p>\n<p>Parramatta were on Monday night still awaiting a full medical report to determine how long the flyer would be sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>But given the Eels play their first game of the season on Thursday week against Addo-Carr&#8217;s former club Melbourne, he is almost certain to miss that match.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Josh Addo-Carr looks set to miss the start of the NRL season for Parramatta after undergoing surgery on his thumb.\u00a0Mark Evans\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Addo-Carr damaged his thumb in Saturday night&#8217;s 28-22 win over the Sydney Roosters in Gosford, and was spotted icing it after the match.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old&#8217;s absence would shape as a serious blow to the Eels, given fellow winger Zac Lomax&#8217;s dramatic exit from the club at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey Simonsson played on the wing in last weekend&#8217;s trial, while Sean Russell could be shifted from centre to wing to replace Addo-Carr.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Samrani impressed against the Roosters and could come into the centres, as could Brian Kelly after his move from Gold Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Addo-Carr looks set to miss the start of the NRL season for Parramatta after undergoing surgery on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-498745","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\/498745","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=498745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}