{"id":625951,"date":"2026-04-23T15:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625951\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:18:26","slug":"nrl-news-2026-jahream-bula-injury-benji-marshall-press-conference-wests-tigers-vs-canberra-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625951\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Jahream Bula injury; Benji Marshall press conference; Wests Tigers vs Canberra Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jahream Bula has denied his injury was anything serious after he was forced to leave the field against the Raiders<\/a> late in the match.<\/p>\n

With 11 minutes left at Leichhardt Oval and the Tigers<\/a> leading 26-14, Bula was spotted walking down the sideline holding his wrist.<\/p>\n

A replay showed Bula was attempting to break a tackle when he extended his arm out and fell awkwardly.<\/p>\n

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The fullback was smiling with the Tigers trainer as he left in a sign it wasn’t cause for too much concern. <\/p>\n

“It didn’t look like anything wrong in the tackle but he’s just fallen awkwardly on his arm,” Phil Gould<\/a> said on Nine. <\/p>\n

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Jahream Bula holds his wrist as he leaves the field.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Nine’s Danika Mason revealed minutes later the injury was a shoulder problem due to hyperextending his arm. The fullback was captured his ice on his shoulder and a jacket over him.<\/p>\n

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

Post-match, Bula allayed any fears that he could be out for a long period.<\/p>\n

“It’s all good, hopefully back next week, nothing too serious,” he told Nine’s coverage. <\/p>\n

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Jahream Bula talks to Nine’s Danika Mason. \u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

In his press conference after the match, Benji Marshall confirmed the injury was “no worse than last week” where Bula had also had a shoulder issue.<\/p>\n

“We’ll have to have a look at it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He seems to be confident for next week, so we’ll see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jahream Bula has denied his injury was anything serious after he was forced to leave the field against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-625951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625951","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=625951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}