{"id":431642,"date":"2026-05-17T06:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431642\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:35:10","slug":"disaster-for-tigers-with-new-double-injury-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431642\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster for Tigers with new double injury blow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wests Tigers<\/a> are already down on troops, but the issues could be about to get worse with centre Taylan May’s season potentially over.<\/p>\n

The star, who came back from a layoff out of the game in the middle of 2025, has been a walk up starter ever since for the Tigers.<\/p>\n

He re-injured his shoulder during the club’s heavy magic round loss to the Manly Sea Eagles<\/a> though and is now expected to miss a significant chunk of time.<\/p>\n

As it’s the same shoulder as he has already injured, a shoulder reconstruction could be required pending on the results of scans.<\/p>\n

“Not good, I think it dislocated so again, he will have to get a scan, but it could be the season,” head coach Benji Marshall<\/a> said of May during his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

The Tigers will likely look to include Jeral Skelton<\/a> in their side to replace May, with Sunia Turuva<\/a> potentially moving back into the centres.<\/p>\n

May’s injury is added to for the Tigers by that to Jock Madden<\/a> after he injured his hamstring against the Sea Eagles.<\/p>\n

With halfback Adam Doueihi<\/a> already sidelined, it could pave the way for Latu Fainu<\/a> to start the next block of games for the joint-venture in the halves.<\/p>\n

In addition to the potential opportunity for Fainu, Marshall said he is hopeful of having a handful of players back alongside the suspended Apisai Koroisau<\/a> after the club’s bye next weekend.<\/p>\n

“We get Api back next week, Jahream [Bula] is a chance, Heamasi [Makasini] could be back in the frame, and probably a couple more there too, but having the bye is the first start, have a bit of time off, reset and start again,” Marshall added.<\/p>\n

A return for Bula in Round 13 would be approximately two weeks ahead of schedule, however, Doueihi will still be joined on the sideline by Samuela Fainu<\/a> at the very least.<\/p>\n

The Tigers expect Alex Twal’s absence to be only a week after he was a late withdrawal from the Manly clash with a knee problem.<\/p>\n

Marshall’s side, who have lost three straight, will aim to turn things around after their bye when they clash with the struggling Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> at Parramatta on May 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wests Tigers are already down on troops, but the issues could be about to get worse with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-431642","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\/431642","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=431642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}