{"id":644386,"date":"2026-05-02T06:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644386\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:48:14","slug":"nrl-news-2026-jack-bostock-stunning-dolphins-return-traumatic-lead-up-as-family-member-battles-disease-the-mole-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644386\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL News 2026: Jack Bostock stunning Dolphins return traumatic lead-up as family member battles disease, The Mole Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Bostock made a stunning return to the NRL<\/a> after a 10-month absence from ACL surgery on Friday night, and he did it with a heavy heart. <\/p>\n

The speedy centre-cum-winger stunned Melbourne<\/a> with a two-try haul in his comeback game, and led the Dolphins<\/a> to a much-needed victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Bostock had a traumatic lead-up to the game, with his uncle Aaron in hospital in his home town of Wollongong battling cancer.<\/p>\n

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\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack Bostock was in superb form in his NRL comeback against the Storm.\u00a0NRL Images<\/p>\n

After the game, Bostock dedicated his return to his uncle’s brave fight with the dreaded disease.<\/p>\n

“Jack and Aaron are really close so it’s been tough for the whole family,” a source close to Bostock told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

“Jack has had his own battles but it’s nothing compared to Aaron, the brother of his dad Josh.<\/p>\n

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“To be able to play so well knowing Aaron was watching on TV would have pleased Jack more than anything.<\/p>\n

“They are a great family and are extremely close.”<\/p>\n

The Dolphins’ 28-10 win at Suncorp Stadium ended a worrying four-game losing run for the Redcliffe team and keeps their finals hopes alive.<\/p>\n

But it dug an even deeper hole for the troubled Storm, who tumbled to a record seventh-straight loss and look a shadow of the team of recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Bostock made a stunning return to the NRL after a 10-month absence from ACL surgery on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-644386","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\/644386","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=644386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}