The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, Strange admitted he is only just on the mend from the illness which caused him to lose 5kg.<\/p>\n\u201cI started going downhill really fast,\u201d Strange said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doctor came over and did my resting heart rate and it was way too high.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I was up all through the night vomiting \u2026 I was vomiting blood. The doctor said I\u2019d burst blood vessels from all the coughing and spewing up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve only just come good but if we were playing this weekend I\u2019d be all right.\u201d<\/p>\n
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – SEPTEMBER 14: Ethan Strange of the Raiders scores a try during the NRL Qualifying Final match between Canberra Raiders and Brisbane Broncos at GIO Stadium on September 14, 2025 in Canberra, Australia. (Photo by Mark Nolan\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Not only was Strange bedridden while his teammates were out fighting for a prelim spot at GIO Stadium, he must\u2019ve felt helpless as the Sharks raced away in the second half. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was shattering. And I\u2019m still shattered,\u201d a candid Strange said.<\/p>\n
\u201dYou feel like you\u2019ve let the boys and the coach down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders young gun Ethan Strange has detailed the nasty illness he battled last week which forced him to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,2652,19549,41595,4618,9498,37215,41597,2647,9499,41598,32719,19542,41596,111,139,69,2659,41594,32252,9485,31674,213,19547],"class_list":{"0":"post-47740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","10":"tag-australian-capital-territory","11":"tag-brutal-semi-final","12":"tag-canberra","13":"tag-canberra-raiders","14":"tag-daily-telegraph","15":"tag-final-match","16":"tag-fox-league","17":"tag-getty-images-inc","18":"tag-illness-battle","19":"tag-manly-sea-eagles","20":"tag-mark-nolan","21":"tag-nasty-illness","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-oceania","26":"tag-raiders-young","27":"tag-resting-heart-rate","28":"tag-semi-final","29":"tag-semi-final-loss","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-super-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47740","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=47740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}