{"id":500951,"date":"2026-02-24T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500951\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:28:10","slug":"nrl-news-2026-joel-caine-takes-health-break-from-sen-radio-and-media-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/500951\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026, Joel Caine takes health break from SEN radio and media duties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NRL<\/a> player turned popular media personality Joel Caine has taken an indefinite break from his radio duties for health reasons.<\/p>\n

SEN confirmed the news on Tuesday and Caine took to X to ally any concerns he was in serious trouble.<\/p>\n

“Just want to be upfront and honest. We aren’t robots. My turn right now,” Caine, 47, posted to social media.<\/p>\n

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“Struggling… never thought it would be me, but it is.<\/p>\n

“Anyone feeling like me I’m sending you a big cuddle.<\/p>\n

“I’m good, but need some time. Back soon.”<\/p>\n

\"Joel<\/p>\n

Joel Caine of the Tigers in 2002.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Caine played 97 first grade games across St George, Balmain, and the Wests Tigers throughout his career as a talented outside back.<\/p>\n

He finished his rugby league career in the Super League in England.<\/p>\n

He enjoyed a seamless transition into media after retiring from football, and has most recently been known as the face of Sportsbet during NRL season.<\/p>\n

He was hosting SEN’s The Run Home with Joel and Fletch but will step down from that role indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2026 NRL season live and free on Nine and 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Joel is a much loved on and off-air figure on the SEN airwaves,” radio boss Craig Hutchison said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“He has made the strong decision to focus on his health for a period of time, and we respect that courage and honesty to speak up, seek support and take a break.<\/p>\n

“We’ll continue to work with our mate, Joel, to support him throughout this period.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NRL player turned popular media personality Joel Caine has taken an indefinite break from his radio duties…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-500951","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\/500951","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=500951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}