{"id":76474,"date":"2025-08-18T03:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76474\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T03:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:10:12","slug":"manly-sea-eagles-veteran-jake-trbojevic-urged-to-sit-out-final-three-rounds-due-to-concussion-kangaroos-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76474\/","title":{"rendered":"Manly Sea Eagles veteran Jake Trbojevic urged to sit out final three rounds due to concussion, Kangaroos squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Trbojevic<\/a> has likely played his last game for the year, with the Sea Eagles<\/a> veteran urged by the club to sit out the final three rounds.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old was sidelined for Sunday’s loss against the Wests Tigers after suffering his third concussion of the year, leading to concerns over his NRL future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trbojevic was knocked out in Manly’s round 23 game against Canberra and was stood down under the mandatory 11-day return-to-play protocols.<\/p>\n

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Nine’s Danny Weidler reports the club have now made it known their “preference” is for Trbojevic to rest for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

Head coach Anthony Seibold<\/a> confirmed that the experienced lock-forward wouldn’t feature in Manly’s must-win clash with the Dolphins in round 25. <\/p>\n

“The only update that I know about Jake is that he won’t play next week,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We’ll get further medical advice, but we won’t be rushing Jake back. He’s had three or four concussions over the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

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“His well being comes before footy by a massive distance. I don’t want to talk for Jake or talk for the medical staff, but I know that he definitely won’t be playing next week.<\/p>\n

“We need to make sure that we then reassess and look at where he’s going.”<\/p>\n

The edict from Sea Eagles officials would also rule Trbojevic out of contention for the Kangaroos<\/a> squad for the year-end Ashes series.<\/p>\n

\"Jake<\/p>\n

Jake Trbojevic\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Kevin Walters confirmed earlier this month that Trbojevic was in the mix to earn a spot in the 22-man touring squad<\/a>, but that prospect must now be in serious doubt.<\/p>\n

Australia will be without Payne Haas for the three-game series against England, with the superstar enforcer committing to play for Samoa in the Pacific Championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tino Fa’asuamaleaui has also been linked with a defection away from Kangaroos duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Trbojevic has likely played his last game for the year, with the Sea Eagles veteran urged by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-76474","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\/76474","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=76474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}