{"id":92792,"date":"2025-08-24T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:28:21","slug":"its-a-bit-scary-trbojevic-makes-career-call-amid-retirement-talks-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92792\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s a bit scary\u201d: Trbojevic makes career call amid retirement talks – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Trbojevic<\/a> was shut down by the Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> last week for the rest of the season, after suffering three concussions throughout 2025.<\/p>\n

The former NSW Blues<\/a> skipper accepted the decision by the club to sit out for the next few weeks, however reports and rumours have been floating around about a more permanent sideline stint.<\/p>\n

Due to a series of head knocks and some underwhelming form in 2025, many have called for the 31-year-old to hang up the boots.<\/p>\n

While Trbojevic has allowed himself to take some time off to recover, he is adamant he will be back in action for the Sea Eagles’ preseason.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to play next year, definitely,” he told the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n

“I’m feeling pretty good, I’ve come good.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, like the first week or whatever, I was not the best, but I’m feeling good now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FiveSYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – JULY 02: Jake Trbojevic<\/a> of the Sea Eagles warms up ahead of the round 18 NRL<\/a> match between Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> and Sydney Roosters<\/a> at 4 Pines Park on July 02, 2023 in Sydney, Australia<\/a>. (Photo by Jason McCawley\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He said that being shut down was just a precaution and will hold no bearing on his future in rugby league.<\/p>\n

“Obviously the club’s just looking after me,\u201d Trbojevic assured<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess I’ve had three in the year so that isn’t ideal, is it?<\/p>\n

“I feel fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

He admitted that although he’s roaring and ready for 2026, the abundance of head knocks have instilled some fear in him.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously it’s not ideal, it’s a bit scary,\u201d he conceded.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a sensitive topic because no one knows, there’s no direct diagnosis right if that makes any sense.<\/p>\n

“I guess you play this game, there’s lots of things that could go wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trbojevic went on to say that if the end of his NRL<\/a> career does come sooner than expected, he would have no regrets.<\/p>\n

“You sign a waiver knowing these sort of things could happen\u2026 but I guess you’re concerned about your career and that sort of thing, that it will come to an end like that,\u201d he highlighted.<\/p>\n

“But I guess I’ve been pretty lucky; I’ve been able to play for a while for Manly and had a really enjoyable career with all my brothers.<\/p>\n

“So if it was come to an end I would be sad, but I’ll be fine with it.”<\/p>\n

‘Jurbo’ has been tipped to earn the Sea Eagles’ captaincy in 2026, with Daly Cherry-Evans<\/a> departing the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Trbojevic was shut down by the Manly Sea Eagles last week for the rest of the season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-92792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92792","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=92792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}