{"id":54085,"date":"2025-08-08T23:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54085\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:45:11","slug":"sea-eagles-lose-veteran-leader-ahead-of-must-win-tigers-clash-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54085\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Eagles lose veteran leader ahead of must-win Tigers clash &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> will be without veteran leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jake-trbojevic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Trbojevic<\/a> next weekend as they attempt to get back to their winning ways and make a late push for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> Finals series.<\/p>\n<p>Facing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/wests-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wests Tigers<\/a> next Sunday afternoon, they will have to do it without Trbojevic, who sustained a concussion and will undergo the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a>&#8216;s mandatory 11-day stand-down concussion protocols.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good thing is he&#8217;s sitting up inside there. It&#8217;s Category 1, so he&#8217;ll definitely miss next week,&#8221; coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/coaches\/anthony-seibold\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Seibold<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the third one this season so it&#8217;s really disappointing for him and us. We&#8217;re already missing six or seven of our forwards at the moment and Jake won&#8217;t play next week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jake Trbojevic won\u2019t be back tonight, and won\u2019t be able to play for at least 11 days, after suffering a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Deemed to have shown clear concussion symptoms (Category 1) + is his 3rd concussion since April &#8211; means 11 day stand down is compulsory. Hope he recovers well. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dY7xs3uWRN\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dY7xs3uWRN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NRL PHYSIO (@nrlphysio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nrlphysio\/status\/1953783118940496084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joining fellow forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/haumole-olakauatu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haumole Olakau&#8217;atu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/josh-aloiai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Aloiai<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/nathan-brown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Brown<\/a> on the sidelines, the club are sweating on the availability of front-row <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/taniela-paseka\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taniela Paseka<\/a>, who is on the comeback trail from an Achilles injury.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the final four matches of the season, a loss next week to the Tigers, who are coming off a victory against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/canterbury-bankstown-bulldogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> and the bye, would see them almost certainly miss the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> Finals.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manly Sea Eagles will be without veteran leader Jake Trbojevic next weekend as they attempt to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-54085","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\/54085","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=54085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}