{"id":338179,"date":"2026-03-19T23:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:12:19","slug":"nrl-st-george-illawarra-dragons-prop-loko-pasifiki-tonga-taken-to-hospital-after-training-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338179\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL: St George Illawarra Dragons prop Loko Pasifiki Tonga taken to hospital after training injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Tonga had been named on the team\u2019s extended bench for Sunday\u2019s round 3 clash against the Parramatta Eels. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">He made his NRL debut with the club last year, playing in 10 of their 26 games, but has yet to feature this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The Dragons have been relatively unscathed in terms of injuries so far, with second-rower Dylan Egan due back from an ACL injury in round 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">They go into the weekend looking to secure their first win of the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">They are one of five clubs without a win through two rounds of the competition, and sit 14th on the ladder, ahead of the Brisbane Broncos, North Queensland Cowboys and Gold Coast Titans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are the other team without a win so far, but they sit above the Dragons because of a superior points differential. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonga had been named on the team\u2019s extended bench for Sunday\u2019s round 3 clash against the Parramatta Eels.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,9526,154827,41721,12856,2241,41724,15258,181021,13457,5268,111,139,577,69,181022,9617,60617,213,11420,19554,61,53476,8812,19791],"class_list":["post-338179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-another","tag-casualty","tag-dragons","tag-george","tag-hospital","tag-illawarra","tag-injury","tag-loko","tag-look","tag-lose","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nrl","tag-nz","tag-pasifiki","tag-player","tag-prop","tag-sports","tag-st","tag-taken","tag-to","tag-tonga","tag-training","tag-ward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}