{"id":763252,"date":"2026-06-27T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763252\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:24:23","slug":"nrl-news-2026-dolphins-captain-isaiya-katoa-suffers-broken-arm-vs-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763252\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Dolphins captain Isaiya Katoa suffers broken arm vs Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolphins<\/a> co-captain Isaiya Katoa<\/a> looks set for a stint on the sidelines after leaving the field in his side\u2019s dramatic 26-24 win over the Warriors<\/a>, which was iced by Selwyn Cobbo<\/a>\u2019s match-winning try and Jamayne Isaako\u2019s sideline conversion.<\/p>\n

The superstar halfback got through the opening 12 minutes at Suncorp Stadium, before he was spotted clutching at his wrist with a Dolphins trainer.<\/p>\n

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Isaiya Katoa sits with his arm in a sling.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Katoa was immediately taken off and went up the tunnel, with word quickly filtering through that the No.7 had suffered a suspected broken arm.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s gone, the trainer\u2019s running him off in back play – this is a huge loss for the Dolphins,\u201d Luke Keary<\/a> said on Fox League commentary. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt looked very similar to the Blayke Brailey broken arm<\/a> earlier in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Replays showed the injury occurred when Katoa attempted to make a tackle on Warriors centre Adam Pompey and got his arm caught awkwardly.<\/p>\n

\u201cDolphins are understandably a bit rattled … he will go for scans to determine how long he will be out,\u201d sideline reporter Lara Pitt said.<\/p>\n

It was also revealed the 22-year-old dislocated his wrist, but the Dolphins medical staff managed to get it back into place in the dressing rooms.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse for the hosts, in-form winger Selwyn Cobbo<\/a> was forced from the field soon after Katoa departed for a head injury assessment.<\/p>\n

He was soon cleared to return after the 15-minute HIA period.<\/p>\n

Cobbo opened the scoring for the Dolphins after four minutes, before Jacob Laban and Dallin Watene-Zelezniak struck back for the visitors.<\/p>\n

Despite their leading man sitting on the sidelines with his arm in a sling, Herbie Farnworth and Isaako put the Dolphins ahead 16-12 at the break.<\/p>\n

The second half was just as see-sawing and it was the Warriors regaining a 24-20 lead after a poor yardage error from Cobbo with just minutes left on the clock.<\/p>\n

But after a short kick off was snatched by the Dolphins, a loose ball later in the set was cleaned up by Cobbo and he dived over in the corner to score.<\/p>\n

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Dolphins players celebrate at full-time.\u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

Isaako then nailed the goal to give the Dolphins an epic win, with Katoa and his teammates on the bench celebrating along with the rapturous fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cGame of the season for me,\u201d Keary said after full-time.<\/p>\n

The win cements the Dolphins\u2019 spot inside the NRL\u2019s top-four, but they now look set to be without the skipper and marquee man Katoa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolphins co-captain Isaiya Katoa looks set for a stint on the sidelines after leaving the field in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-763252","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\/763252","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=763252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}