{"id":445187,"date":"2026-05-26T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445187\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:08:09","slug":"nrl-roger-tuivasa-shecks-warriors-career-over-after-confirmation-of-acl-rupture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445187\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL: Roger Tuivasa-Sheck\u2019s Warriors career over after confirmation of ACL rupture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cACL confirmed. Tough to accept, but the season goes on. We got something special going. Big love for all the messages.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is the second time in his career Tuivasa-Sheck has picked up an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in his left knee, having also ruptured it in 2016.<\/p>\n

The injury means Tuivasa-Sheck has played his last game for the club, having signed with English Super League club Wakefield Trinity for next season.<\/p>\n

The average ACL recovery timeline can span from nine to 12 months.<\/p>\n

It is the second ACL injury in as many weeks for the Warriors, after halfback Tanah Boyd went down<\/a> in the opening minutes of the Warriors\u2019 Magic Round victory over the Brisbane Broncos, before scans confirmed his season was done, with surgery needed.<\/p>\n

The blow also comes days out from the Warriors\u2019 top-of-the-table clash with the Penrith Panthers in Sydney on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Adam Pompey looms as the likely replacement, after a starring role for the Warriors\u2019 New South Wales Cup side last weekend \u2013 albeit at five-eighth.<\/p>\n

Tuivasa-Sheck captained the Auckland club from 2017-21 and has won the Simon Mannering Medal as Warriors Player of the Year four times. He is the only player to win the award three consecutive years from 2017-19.<\/p>\n

Tuivasa-Sheck is the only Warriors player to claim the Dally M Medal as NRL Player of the Year in 2018 and was also named Fullback of the Year in 2015 and 2018, and Winger of the Year in 2013.<\/p>\n

In 2021, he switched to rugby union and played two tests for the All Blacks, before returning to league in 2024.<\/p>\n

He has played internationally for the New Zealand Kiwis and Samoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cACL confirmed. Tough to accept, but the season goes on. We got something special going. Big love for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[52296,74,222565,13381,2046,18836,80649,222566,5504,2740,5269,15439,685,101,222567,111,139,577,69,1118,1523,61492,6372,169378,52295,213,64446,190707,3006,80],"class_list":["post-445187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-acl","tag-after","tag-anterior","tag-captain","tag-career","tag-club","tag-confirmation","tag-cruciate","tag-following","tag-former","tag-game","tag-knee","tag-last","tag-left","tag-ligament","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nrl","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-over","tag-played","tag-roger","tag-rupture","tag-ruptured","tag-sports","tag-tuivasasheck","tag-tuivasashecks","tag-warriors","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445187","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=445187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}