{"id":646133,"date":"2026-05-03T03:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646133\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:07:10","slug":"origin-dreams-crushed-as-roosters-star-is-set-to-have-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646133\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin dreams crushed as Roosters star is set to have surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The injury toll from Saturday’s thriller at Allianz Stadium continues to mount for the Roosters, with head coach Trent Robinson<\/a> delivering a grim update on flyer Mark Nawaqanitawase<\/a>, and the news is about as welcome as a knock-on in golden point.<\/p>\n

The electric winger, who had openly spoken about his desire to pull on the Blues<\/a> jersey, looks set to watch the State of Origin<\/a> series opener on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

His night ended most cruelly when his foot became pinned beneath teammate Robert Toia<\/a>, the kind of freak moment that can derail an entire season in seconds.<\/p>\n

A syndesmosis injury is the suspected culprit, with surgery looming and a 6-8 week recovery timeline all but slamming the door on his Origin debut.<\/p>\n

“It’s (his) syndesmosis, he looks like he’ll have an op,” Robinson revealed in the press conference after his side’s victory.<\/p>\n

Nawaqanitawase wasn’t the only Rooster limping out of the wreckage.<\/p>\n

Queensland workhorse Lindsay Collins<\/a> failed his head injury assessment before the break and won’t make the trip to Gosford next Friday.<\/p>\n

Star backrower Angus Crichton<\/a> will also need scans on a knee injury that forced him to leave the game during the second half.<\/p>\n

“Gus was a medial. We’re having a look at that to see where he’s at, so he’s getting scans now,\u201d Robinson stated.<\/p>\n

“But I probably could have left him out there, but he needed work multiple times, so that’s medial.<\/p>\n

“And then obviously Lindsay, he was pretty good there (in the sheds), he was pretty clear on what happened and everything, but not good enough to go back on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injury toll from Saturday’s thriller at Allianz Stadium continues to mount for the Roosters, with head coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-646133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646133","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=646133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}