{"id":804981,"date":"2026-07-16T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804981\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:59:11","slug":"nrlw-news-2026-kennedy-cherrington-injury-update-orbital-fracture-parramatta-eels-women-in-league-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/804981\/","title":{"rendered":"NRLW news 2026: Kennedy Cherrington injury update, orbital fracture, Parramatta Eels, Women in League round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parramatta<\/a> NRLW<\/a> star Kennedy Cherrington has shown off a massive shiner she earned in her side\u2019s loss to the Dragons<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

The Eels lock suffered an orbital fracture in the 22-8 loss on Sunday, and will miss this weekend\u2019s clash with the Titans<\/a> on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

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Kennedy Cherrington suffered an orbital fracture against the Dragons.\u00a0Today<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, Cherrington and teammate Zali Fay appeared on Nine\u2019s Today to launch Women in League round, with the former rocking the world\u2019s largest pair of sunglasses.<\/p>\n

But when pushed by host Danika Mason to show the world why she was wearing the sunnies, Cherrington didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like Michael Jordan right now \u2026 it just opened today,\u201d she said as she revealed a heavily swollen and bruised left eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my gosh, that\u2019s crazy. On national TV.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions will this weekend celebrate Women in League round. Fay said the acknowledgement was important for every woman involved in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is such a big round for the girls and everyone on and off the field that have represented and helped get the game to where it is today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Eels are 0-2 from the opening two games, but Cherrington said it was too early to \u201cpush the panic button\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn rugby league you have the opportunity to put a game aside and go again, (but) you\u2019re only as good as your last game,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls have an opportunity against the Titans \u2026 it\u2019s only early days, we can\u2019t hit the panic button right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen in League round is a big occasion to rise for, and I think our girls can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fay was also lucky enough to be a part of a collaboration between the NRLW and Vogue Australia with Titan Indie Bostock, sister of Dolphins gun Jack Bostock, and Bulldog Bridget Hoy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Vogue opportunity was massive \u2013 it\u2019s always awesome when you can collaborate your off-field and on-field together,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing a little bit behind the scenes in terms of fashion and modelling and designing. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really cool to showcase the femininity behind footy, as well as getting around some of the young and up-and-coming stars to really showcase the sport and what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parramatta NRLW star Kennedy Cherrington has shown off a massive shiner she earned in her side\u2019s loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-804981","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\/804981","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=804981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}