{"id":342181,"date":"2026-03-22T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342181\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:16:10","slug":"concerns-for-former-nrl-star-after-suffering-serious-injury-in-club-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342181\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns for former NRL star after suffering serious injury in club debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>There are significant concerns for former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/james-segeyaro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Segeyaro<\/a>, who suffered a serious hip injury on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Segeyaro was injured in his club debut for the Glebe Dirty Reds in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nswrl-competitions\/ron-massey-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Massey Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dirty Reds put out a statement on social media regarding Segeyaro&#8217;s injury status after the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to all those passing on their best wishes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/james-segeyaro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Segeyaro<\/a>, who suffered a seemingly serious injury during his debut match for Glebe today,&#8221; a team spokesperson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;James has been conveyed to hospital where he is being treated for a hip injury. We will provide further updates in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The club made a further update after responding to reports on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the genuinely great characters of the game and was having an absolute blinder today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fingers crossed for the best possible news for James and his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was named Dally M Hooker of the Year in 2014, where he played his best footy for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/penrith-panthers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penrith Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He last played in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/manly-sea-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manly Sea Eagles<\/a>, playing one game in the match where seven starting players stood down due to a pride-themed jersey design in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; There are significant concerns for former NRL star James Segeyaro, who suffered a serious hip injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-342181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342181","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=342181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}