{"id":64343,"date":"2025-10-08T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64343\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:49:07","slug":"harry-godfrey-out-of-rugby-for-several-months-with-ruptured-acl-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64343\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Godfrey out of rugby for several months with ruptured ACL injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s hugely disappointing for us and Harry to get a serious injury in the NPC and take him out of contention for the Super Rugby Pacific season ahead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty obvious last year that Harry was stepping up to become a real valued member of the squad. The way he was playing in the NPC this year, I think you could see that maturity was starting to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will support him post-operation at the end of the month. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be back bigger and better and stronger. <\/p>\n

Godfrey was earlier this year being touted as a possible addition to the All Blacks squad options, and national second-string side the All Blacks XV for two matches in the UK next month.<\/p>\n

At the time of the match against Auckland, Godfrey, a first five-eighths and fullback<\/a>, had already been out for two games with injury.<\/p>\n

He was to have made his return in the match, having been the hero of a one-point win over Auckland at McLean Park 12 months earlier. <\/p>\n

The No 10 jersey has been worn in Godfrey\u2019s absence by Lincoln McClutchie<\/a>, who has played in more than 80 games for the Magpies since 2018, for more than 500 points, his 36 this season included an extra-time dropped goal to beat Bay of Plenty in his first match back in Tauranga on September 13. <\/p>\n

The Magpies\u2019 team for Saturday night\u2019s match against Taranaki Bulls<\/a> is to be named, along with other quarterfinal teams, at 2pm today(Wednesday).<\/p>\n

Doug Laing has been a journalist for more than 50 years, covering most aspects of news, including rugby and other sports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s hugely disappointing for us and Harry to get a serious injury in the NPC and take him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,52296,17517,52297,2082,52294,9859,1976,15258,120,9612,14574,3234,111,139,69,1118,3111,9617,50330,6327,52295,17893,6926,13109,213,2737,313,18840,1533,102],"class_list":["post-64343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2246","tag-acl","tag-because","tag-bunnings","tag-for","tag-godfrey","tag-harry","tag-hawkes","tag-injury","tag-likely","tag-magpies","tag-miss","tag-months","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-out","tag-player","tag-quarterfinal","tag-rugby","tag-ruptured","tag-saturdays","tag-season","tag-several","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-super","tag-warehouse","tag-will","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64343","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=64343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}