{"id":425690,"date":"2026-05-13T14:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:05:09","slug":"bulldogs-forced-to-make-two-changes-to-magic-round-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425690\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs forced to make two changes to Magic Round squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/canterbury-bankstown-bulldogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> have confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/samuel-hughes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Hughes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/josh-curran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Curran<\/a> &#8211; who were both named in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/magic-round\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magic Round<\/a> squad for Friday&#8217;s clash with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/cronulla-sharks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cronulla Sharks<\/a> &#8211; have had to withdraw.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was named to play the game from the bench, but has been ruled out to a neck injury.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear at this stage how or when the injury was sustained, but it&#8217;s believed it occurred while the club were training this week before heading to Brisbane for the opening match of rugby league&#8217;s biggest regular season weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Canterbury have also confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/josh-curran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Curran<\/a> has been withdrawn from contention for the game.<\/p>\n<p>He was named in the 22-man squad to travel north, but has suffered a rib injury. Curran could well have been the player in line to win a promotion to the bench with Hughes missing out.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Canterbury have confirmed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> will allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jack-underhill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Underhill<\/a> to join what is now a 21-man squad, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jed-reardon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jed Reardon<\/a> promoted to 19th man, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/sean-osullivan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean O&#8217;Sullivan<\/a> joining the named six-man bench after originally being named in jersey 22.<\/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; The Canterbury Bulldogs have confirmed Samuel Hughes and Josh Curran &#8211; who were both named in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-425690","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\/425690","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=425690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}