{"id":702757,"date":"2026-05-29T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702757\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:49:18","slug":"nrl-news-2026-cronulla-sharks-nsw-blues-hooker-blayke-brailey-suffers-suspected-broken-arm-in-manly-sea-eagles-clash-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702757\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Cronulla Sharks, NSW Blues hooker Blayke Brailey suffers suspected broken arm in Manly Sea Eagles clash | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharks<\/a> co-captain Blayke Brailey suffered a suspected broken forearm on Friday night in a massive blow for Cronulla and NSW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cronulla’s other co-captain, Cameron McInnes<\/a>, made a staggering reveal after the Sharks’ 28-22 win over the Sea Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“One of the physios said as he [Brailey] walked off he put the break back in place himself, without flinching at all,” McInnes said during the Sharks’ post-game press conference.<\/p>\n

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\"Blayke<\/p>\n

The moment Blayke Brailey injured his right forearm on Friday night.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“It’s a painful injury. He’s a tough man and we’re lucky to have him.”<\/p>\n

McInnes said it didn’t surprise him at all that Brailey backed up for the Sharks only two days after starring in the Blues’ 22-20 victory in State of Origin I<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He’s the toughest player I’ve played with, for his size but just for everything,” McInnes said.<\/p>\n

Brailey was attempting to tackle Jason Saab during the second half at Shark Park when his right arm collided awkwardly with the Manly winger’s torso.<\/p>\n

“You’ve got to feel for the young man,” said Blues legend Andrew Johns on the Nine broadcast.<\/p>\n

“He was sensational on Wednesday night.”<\/p>\n

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

It appears the NSW rookie will be unavailable for selection for game two, in which the Blues will aim to wrap up the series at AAMI Park.<\/p>\n

At Accor Stadium on Wednesday night, he set up a try and made 14 tackles after replacing starting hooker Reece Robson in the 50th minute.<\/p>\n

He was also brilliant for Cronulla on Friday night, making a line break, setting up a try, racking up 79 run metres and laying 28 tackles in 54 minutes of game time.<\/p>\n

“He’s a big person for our team and I think he did so well to come back and play after Origin,” Sharks fullback Will Kennedy told Nine post-match.<\/p>\n

“That’s just the sort of bloke he is.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully some good news come out of it and hopefully he can come back quick.”<\/p>\n

Sharks coach Craig Fitzgibbon was visibly dejected for Brailey.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully if it is fractured it’s clean and not displaced, so that would minimise the time,” Fitzgibbon said in the press conference.<\/p>\n

“But yeah, that’s what it’s looking like.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharks co-captain Blayke Brailey suffered a suspected broken forearm on Friday night in a massive blow for Cronulla…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-702757","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\/702757","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=702757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}