{"id":379097,"date":"2026-04-14T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379097\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:38:09","slug":"south-sydney-confirm-return-date-for-fifita-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379097\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sydney confirm return date for Fifita, Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> have confirmed the injury timeline for two of their biggest stars, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/david-fifita\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Fifita<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jye-gray\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jye Gray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both players sustained injuries in their side&#8217;s loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/canberra-raiders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canberra Raiders<\/a> last weekend in Perth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fifita came off with a hamstring injury during the match, with the club expecting him to miss six weeks of action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scans revealed Gray sustained a Grade 3 AC joint sprain, and despite the injury allowing for unpredictable recovery periods, he is set to miss four weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The club also released some good news surrounding players returning from injury.<\/p>\n<p>Rising outside back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/talanoa-penitani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talanoa Penitani<\/a> made a successful return from a hamstring tear that was sustained in the Charity Shield preseason match against the Dragons.<\/p>\n<p>It saw him take the field in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nswrl-competitions\/nsw-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NSW Cup<\/a> for 40 minutes on the weekend, and will undertake more game-time moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>More troops will be back on deck when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/ashton-ward\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashton Ward<\/a> (syndesmosis), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jonah-glover\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonah Glover<\/a> (jaw) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/euan-aitken\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Euan Aitken<\/a> (leg) return in two weeks, with the club confirming they are all tracking along nicely.\u00a0<\/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; South Sydney Rabbitohs have confirmed the injury timeline for two of their biggest stars, David Fifita&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-379097","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\/379097","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=379097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}