{"id":417198,"date":"2026-05-08T01:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417198\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:45:11","slug":"former-warriors-player-jason-death-in-hospital-in-sydney-after-bad-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417198\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Warriors player Jason Death in hospital in Sydney after bad fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4NK4RVQ_PS0033951_DEATH_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"689\" alt=\"Jason Death, New Zealand Warriors v Brisbane Broncos, NRL rugby league, Ericsson Stadium, Auckland. 24 March 2001. \u00a9 Copyright Photo: www.photosport.nz\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nJason Death, playing for the Warriors against the Broncos in March 2001.<br \/>\nPhoto: www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n<p>A GoFundMe page has been launched for former Warriors NRL player Jason Death, following reports he&#8217;s suffered a serious fall.<\/p>\n<p>According to a post on the website, Death has a long recovery ahead of him, after he fractured his skull which caused bleeding on the brain.<\/p>\n<p>He is intensive care following surgery,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jason and his family are some of the kindest people around, and now it&#8217;s our turn to support them. Any donation, big or small, would be greatly appreciated,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n<p>Death, 54, played 55 games for the Warriors between 1999 and 2001. He also played the for the Raiders, Cowboys and the Rabbitohs in his 14-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Panthers coach, Ivan Cleary, who&#8217;s also a former Warriors coach, is Death&#8217;s brother-in-law.<\/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":"Jason Death, playing for the Warriors against the Broncos in March 2001. Photo: www.photosport.nz A GoFundMe page has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417199,"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":["post-417198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417198","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=417198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}