{"id":346038,"date":"2026-03-24T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346038\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:02:11","slug":"maxigesic-recovery-report-metcalf-makes-early-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346038\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxigesic Recovery Report: Metcalf makes early return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First it was co-captain Mitchell Barnett last week and now halfback Luke Metcalf has been cleared from the One New Zealand Warriors\u2019 injury list.<\/p>\n<p>Like Barnett, Metcalf suffered an ACL injury last season, his campaign ending 67 minutes into the round 17 clash against the Broncos in Brisbane last June.<\/p>\n<p>His return to play date was brought forward to round six last week but such has been his progress he has now been given the all-clear heading into round four.<\/p>\n<p>Also coming off the list are fullback Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad and standoff Chanel Harris-Tavita who both had last week off as they adhered to NRL concussion protocols after being forced off the field with head knocks in the Canberra clash in round two.<\/p>\n<p>Second rower Morgan Gannon (concussion) is ruled out this week after leaving the field just minutes into his debut as Warrior #296 last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Second rower Kurt Capewell remains sidelined with the calf injury he picked up in warm-up before the match against the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>Maxigesic Recovery Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First it was co-captain Mitchell Barnett last week and now halfback Luke Metcalf has been cleared from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-346038","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\/346038","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=346038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}