{"id":356337,"date":"2026-03-31T05:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:23:11","slug":"nz-warriors-lose-co-captain-mitch-barnett-through-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356337\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Warriors lose co-captain Mitch Barnett through injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JQWUDF_itchell_pdf.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Mitch Barnett of the Warriors.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMitch Barnett of the Warriors.<br \/>\nPhoto: PHOTOSPORT\n<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Barnett&#8217;s return to the Warriors has lasted just a couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s co-captain broke a thumb in last weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/590880\/nrl-what-we-learnt-from-warriors-defeat-to-wests-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">32-14 loss to Wests Tigers<\/a> in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Barnett had only just returned from injury the week prior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/590265\/nrl-warriors-overrun-knights-on-barnett-s-return\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after suffering a season-ending knee injury<\/a> last June.<\/p>\n<p>A Warriors statement said Barnett had surgery this week with a return to play date yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian forward played 52 minutes against the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors are second on the table with a three win-one loss record.<\/p>\n<p>They are away to the Sharks on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitch Barnett of the Warriors. Photo: PHOTOSPORT Mitch Barnett&#8217;s return to the Warriors has lasted just a couple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-356337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356337","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=356337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}