NSW has received a major boost with Ethan Strange cleared to take his place on the bench in Wednesday\u2019s State of Origin decider.<\/p>\n
Strange rolled his ankle last week and was told he needed to get through Monday\u2019s session, with medical staff clearing him for game three at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a great result for the Blues given how well he played on debut at five-eighth in Origin I, with standby player Matt Burton to return to Sydney where he can prepare for the Bulldogs\u2019 game against Strange\u2019s Raiders on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, there\u2019s positive news for the Wests Tigers after scans revealed skipper Api Koroisau will only miss four games with a pec strain.<\/p>\n
There were fears that he\u2019d torn it and would miss the rest of the season, but he is expected to return after the round 23 bye for their game against the Dragons.<\/p>\n
Koroisau left the field in the second half during the loss to the Dragons on Saturday night, with the Tigers now four points outside the top eight and needing to go on a big run without their best player if they are to end their finals drought. <\/p>\n
\u201cApi Koroisau will be out for four weeks with a pectoral muscle strain,\u201d the club posted on X. <\/p>\n
\u201cScans taken on Sunday have revealed a low-grade strain of the muscle tendon junction following Saturday night\u2019s game against the Dragons. Wishing our skip all the best in his recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW has received a major boost with Ethan Strange cleared to take his place on the bench in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[21398,64,63,44449,12979,761,762,43961,158,192994,85,6405,4515],"class_list":["post-782513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-api-koroisau","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ethan-strange","tag-injuries","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-newswire-sport","tag-nrl","tag-nsw-blues","tag-sports","tag-state-of-origin","tag-wests-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782513","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=782513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}