{"id":650905,"date":"2026-05-05T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:09:15","slug":"horror-news-for-tigers-as-doueihi-finau-injury-timelines-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650905\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror news for Tigers as Doueihi, Finau injury timelines confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wests Tigers<\/a> will be without both Adam Doueihi<\/a> and Samuela Fainu<\/a> for lengthy stints, with the club confirming the status of injuries sustained during a blowout loss to the Cronulla Sharks<\/a> on the weekend.<\/p>\n

Doueihi, who was injured early in the game when attempting to score a try, has watched his State of Origin<\/a> dream go up in smoke.<\/p>\n

The in-form halfback who can play anywhere in the back seven will miss six weeks, setting his return date around the same time as Game 2 of this year’s series.<\/p>\n

At club level, he will likely miss upcoming games against the Melbourne Storm<\/a>, Manly Sea Eagles<\/a>, Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a>, Penrith Panthers<\/a> and Gold Gold Coast Titans<\/a> before being fit to return in Round 16 against the Dolphins<\/a>. The Tigers have a bye after their clash against Manly, and have confirmed Jock Madden<\/a> will replace him at halfback this weekend.<\/p>\n

Fainu, on the other hand, will be replaced by the returning Kai Pearce-Paul<\/a>, but a foot injury will keep him out for double the length of time Doueihi will miss, with the club anticipating a 12-week return to play.<\/p>\n

While no further details will given, that is the typical return timeline for a major lisfranc injury.<\/p>\n

It means he will likely miss all the games Doueihi misses, as well as games against the Dolphins<\/a>, Newcastle Kights, St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a>, New Zealand Warriors<\/a>, Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> and Canberra Raiders<\/a> before being a likely return in Round 22 against the Parramatta Eels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In further bad news for the Tigers, the original return timeline for Jahream Bula<\/a> has blown out from three to four weeks to another five weeks, with the club now not anticipating his return until the game against the Titans.<\/p>\n

The other player in the Tigers’ casualty ward is Heamasi Makasini<\/a>, who is expected to miss another three weeks with a foot injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wests Tigers will be without both Adam Doueihi and Samuela Fainu for lengthy stints, with the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-650905","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\/650905","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=650905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}