{"id":577126,"date":"2026-08-22T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577126\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:52:11","slug":"nrl-news-2026-dallin-watene-zelezniak-injures-shoulder-while-scoring-a-try-video-south-sydney-rabbitohs-v-new-zealand-warriors-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577126\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Dallin Watene-Zelezniak injures shoulder while scoring a try, video; South Sydney Rabbitohs v New Zealand Warriors result"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Warriors<\/a> will be sweating on the scans of Dallin Watene-Zelezniak<\/a> after he went down with a shoulder concern in the side\u2019s 45-26 win<\/a> over the Rabbitohs<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The visitors were leading 26-8 in the early minutes of the second half and looked to score via their winger in the corner, but as Watene-Zelezniak came down to ground the ball he landed heavily on his right shoulder. <\/p>\n

\"Dallin<\/p>\n

Dallin Watene-Zelezniak reaches for his shoulder after scoring a try for the Warriors.\u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

It was clear to all as soon as he had grounded the ball that his shoulder was not OK. He immediately signalled he would be departing the field. <\/p>\n

Watene-Zelezniak kept his shoulder still as he high-fived nearby teammates with his left hand and spoke with team medics on the sidelines. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think he hurt that left shoulder in the first half when he got ankle tapped and (again) now,\u201d Greg Alexander<\/a> said in commentary on Fox League.<\/p>\n

While Watene-Zelzniak was focused on the pain in his shoulder, the Bunker analysed his grounding of the ball as a replay appeared to show he had bobbled it.<\/p>\n

But the try was cleared and awarded, bringing the Warriors to a 32-8 lead.<\/p>\n

Coach Andrew Webster then called for Adam Pompey to move to the wing in place of the injured Watene-Zelzniak while Eddie Ieremia-Toeava came into the centres.<\/p>\n

Webster confirmed that medics believe Watene-Zelzniak has suffered an AC joint injury or a collarbone concern.<\/p>\n

Mitch Barnett joked on Fox League post-match that he would have been able to push through the pain that his injured winger endured early in the half. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf it was me, I\u2019d probably play next week, but I don\u2019t know how long he\u2019ll be out for,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

But South Sydney took advantage of the structural changes the Warriors were still trying to adapt to in the absence of Watene-Zelezniak and found the chance to send Duncan, Alex Johnston and Cody Walker over to turn the game on its head. <\/p>\n

Despite a resilient comeback display, the Warriors held on and fired two more tries on the scoreboard via Jacob Laban and Alofiana Khan-Pereira. <\/p>\n

Luke Hanson, playing in his second-ever NRL game, sealed the result with a field goal.<\/p>\n

Earlier, a short ball by Wayde Egan into James Fisher-Harris marked the start of the Warriors\u2019 try-scoring blitz, with the team captain crashing over in the 7th minute. <\/p>\n

Leka Halasima followed just three minutes later before the Rabbitohs eventually found their groove and sent Jack Wighton over to halt the Warriors\u2019 momentum. <\/p>\n

Barnett scored his first try of season in the 20th minute. Johnston and Chanel Harris-Tavita then traded tries to finish off the first half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Warriors will be sweating on the scans of Dallin Watene-Zelezniak after he went down with a shoulder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-577126","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\/577126","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=577126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}