{"id":694663,"date":"2026-05-26T01:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694663\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T01:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:32:12","slug":"tough-to-accept-warriors-guns-nrl-career-looks-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694663\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tough to accept&#8217;: Warriors gun&#8217;s NRL career looks over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Warriors club legend Roger Tuivasa-Sheck looks to have played his last NRL game after confirming he suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury in round 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 32-year-old outside back took to Instagram and revealed he would not play again this year before joining English side Wakefield Trinity next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That&#8217;s my footy for the year. ACL confirmed. Tough to accept but the season goes on. We got something special going. Big love for all the messages,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tuivasa-Sheck pulled up sore following a tackle on Hayden Buchanan early in the first half of Saturday night&#8217;s defeat of St George Illawarra and left the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He wore a brace on his knee after fulltime and went for scans on return to Auckland, where his prognosis was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tuivasa-Sheck had been playing his first game back from a minor shoulder injury and was enjoying a great campaign for the second-placed Kiwi club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Warriors, who have never won the NRL premiership, appear a great chance of playing finals this year, but without Tuivasa-Sheck.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/877b1ea2eac20c2c8f94c828507edbdc.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Roger Tuivasa-Sheck left Jubilee Stadium alongside a trainer in what could be his last NRL outing. (Dan Himbrechts\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It appears a devastating end to a sparkling NRL career for Tuivasa-Sheck, who is the only man to have won the Dally M Medal playing for the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He won Dally M Captain of the Year in 2020 for his inspirational leadership while the Warriors were stranded in Australia amid COVID-enforced bubble restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tuivasa-Sheck made an emotional return to the Warriors in 2024 after spending two years playing rugby union, and three Tests for the All Blacks.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7ac17000173ac1511bc8bda05c21beab.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Roger Tuivasa-Sheck is all smiles after earning 2018 Dally M glory. (Dan Himbrechts\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fullback in his prime, Tuivasa-Sheck has in recent seasons found success returning to the outside backs, where he began his career at the Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He played 242 NRL games, 158 of those across two stints for the Warriors and the remainder for the Tricolours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tuivasa-Sheck&#8217;s injury came the week after in-form halfback Tanah Boyd suffered an ACL rupture at Magic Round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Warriors&#8217; season now sits at a fork in the road; their 2025 campaign did not recover following ACL blows to Mitch Barnett and Luke Metcalf in quick succession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warriors club legend Roger Tuivasa-Sheck looks to have played his last NRL game after confirming he suffered an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[338778,64,63,761,762,158,2625,85,12644,279526,3198],"class_list":["post-694663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-anterior-cruciate-ligament-injury","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-roger-tuivasa-sheck","tag-sports","tag-the-warriors","tag-wakefield-trinity","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694663","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=694663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}