{"id":432725,"date":"2026-05-18T02:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432725\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:07:10","slug":"warriors-crush-broncos-42-12-boyd-suffers-suspected-acl-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432725\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors crush Broncos 42-12, Boyd suffers suspected ACL injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warriors half Tanah Boyd suffered a suspected ACL injury before his teammates rallied to overpower an ill-disciplined Brisbane 42-12.<\/p>\n

The star playmaker went down in the seventh minute of play on Sunday afternoon at Magic Round while in possession.<\/p>\n

His right knee was tested by a Warriors medic and he limped off, amid fears for the worst.<\/p>\n

In Fox League commentary Cooper Cronk said the situation had all the hallmarks of “an ACL test”.<\/p>\n

Boyd was replaced at Suncorp Stadium by former Broncos playmaker Te Maire Martin.<\/p>\n

The second-placed Warriors were too big, too strong and too smart and four first-half tries to Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, Erin Clark, Wayde Egan and Kurt Capewell gave them a 22-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Hooker Egan is in the mix for NSW and his scheming display enhanced his chances.<\/p>\n

Prop Jackson Ford continued his stellar form to edge closer to a Blues debut.<\/p>\n

Broncos fullback Reece Walsh was underwhelming before he went off for an HIA, which he passed, and appears to not have done enough to dislodge Queensland incumbent Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow from the No.1 position.<\/p>\n

The Broncos lost lock Pat Carrigan to the sin bin for repeated infringements in the first half. and Warriors winger Alofiana Khan-Pereira<\/a> was also binned for a high shot on Jesse Arthars.<\/p>\n

Brisbane hit back inside two minutes of the second half, with captain Adam Reynolds starting and finishing a sweeping movement to score the first of his two tries.<\/p>\n

\"Tanah<\/p>\n

Tanah Boyd went down in the seventh minute of play on Sunday afternoon at Magic Round while in possession. (Source: Photosport)<\/p>\n

Another Broncos error gifted Ali Leiataua a try under the sticks, and any hope of a comeback was snuffed out when an Egan dart sent Martin over and the rout escalated.<\/p>\n

Boyd has been a catalyst for the Warriors’ surge to second on the NRL ladder.<\/p>\n

He recently re-signed until the end of 2029, which led to fellow half Luke Metcalf<\/a> joining St George Illawarra from next year on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n

Warriors halves have suffered serious injuries in consecutive seasons against the Broncos.<\/p>\n

Last year, Metcalf ruptured an ACL in the round 17 clash against the Broncos, also at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n

It was Metcalf’s absence at the start of this season that enabled Boyd to assert himself as the chief No.7 at the Warriors.<\/p>\n

Metcalf, who had been given a break while determining his future, will now have to battle with Martin to replace Boyd in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n

Broncos winger Phil Coates had a mixed night on debut but did a great job to leap high to catch a Walsh bullet pass and set up Reynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warriors half Tanah Boyd suffered a suspected ACL injury before his teammates rallied to overpower an ill-disciplined Brisbane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,42,43,577,40,38,41,39,3006],"class_list":["post-432725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nrl","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432725","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=432725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}