{"id":365263,"date":"2026-04-05T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365263\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:44:08","slug":"warriors-v-sharks-luke-metcalf-to-miss-clash-with-storm-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365263\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors v Sharks: Luke Metcalf to miss clash with Storm with hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLuke\u2019s had a few obviously in the past and he currently feels like it is okay,\u201d Webster said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs in, he\u2019s going to miss time but he doesn\u2019t feel like it\u2019s a long-term one but he\u2019s just talking about how he felt with others in the past.<\/p>\n

\"LukeLuke Metcalf picked up a hamstring injury in the Warriors’ loss to the Sharks. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

\u201cCharnze is not a concussion, it\u2019s a neck. He just got jarred. He passed his test in there and said he didn\u2019t feel concussed at all. He\u2019s just worried about his neck and they\u2019ve cleared him so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metcalf will join Mitch Barnett<\/a>, Rocco Berry and Te Maire Martin in the casualty ward.<\/p>\n

In positive news, the Warriors could welcome back Kurt Capewell from a calf injury.<\/p>\n

With Metcalf out, Webster will likely inject Chanel Harris-Tavita to the side to partner Tanah Boyd in the halves, a combination used in their opening two games of the season.<\/p>\n

Metcalf was initially slated to return between rounds 7-10<\/a> from his ACL injury but made his comeback last week in the defeat to the Wests Tigers.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Warriors had won their opening three games before suffering back-to-back defeats since Metcalf\u2019s return.<\/p>\n

The combination of Metcalf and Boyd hasn\u2019t yielded the results Webster would have liked, but he insists there are positives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a couple of things just individually I don\u2019t think they\u2019d be rapt with, but I wouldn\u2019t say cohesion or combinations were an issue there,\u201d Webster said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly with those two, I thought I\u2019ll have to have another look at it, but I don\u2019t think they were out of sync together, it was more overplaying at times.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Warriors travelled back to Auckland immediately after the match and will begin preparation to face the Storm, who are suffering their own crisis at the moment.<\/p>\n

The Storm are on a three-game losing streak and are coming off a 50-10 defeat to the Penrith Panthers – equalling their biggest losing margin under Craig Bellamy (2008 Grand Final), while it was the first time since 2003 they conceded 50 points. <\/p>\n

However, they have history on their side against the Warriors.<\/p>\n

The Warriors have lost 17 straight matches against the Storm, with their last win coming against them in 2015, while you have to go back a further year since they last won in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the longest active losing streak between teams in the NRL<\/a>, but despite history being against them, Warriors captain James Fisher-Harris is upbeat about his side\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel pretty good about it,\u201d Fisher-Harris said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think over the last 10 years or something, it\u2019s some sort of record that we haven\u2019t won. It\u2019s not about them losing three in a row, it\u2019s about us. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben Francis<\/a> is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLuke\u2019s had a few obviously in the past and he currently feels like it is okay,\u201d Webster said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[191955,74,20251,3019,1320,2223,129885,5506,1872,69064,66065,15258,102883,123,104115,14574,111,139,1536,69,14861,213,2737,673,64174,165,61,1315,3006,20252,4518,1533,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-365263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-191955","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-andrew","11":"tag-clash","12":"tag-coach","13":"tag-confirmed","14":"tag-cronulla","15":"tag-defeat","16":"tag-face","17":"tag-fiveeighth","18":"tag-hamstring","19":"tag-injury","20":"tag-luke","21":"tag-melbourne","22":"tag-metcalf","23":"tag-miss","24":"tag-new-zealand","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-next","27":"tag-nz","28":"tag-sharks","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-star","31":"tag-storm","32":"tag-sustaining","33":"tag-their","34":"tag-to","35":"tag-trip","36":"tag-warriors","37":"tag-webster","38":"tag-weeks","39":"tag-will","40":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365263","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=365263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}