{"id":279350,"date":"2025-11-23T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279350\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:46:09","slug":"james-newton-whitehaven-hooker-forced-to-retire-because-of-neck-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279350\/","title":{"rendered":"James Newton: Whitehaven hooker forced to retire because of neck injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whitehaven hooker James Newton has been forced to retire from rugby league because of a serious neck injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newton fractured vertebrae in his neck during a match against Halifax Panthers in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hooker, who had walked off the field, was later transported from a hospital in Cumbria to one in Newcastle where a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c0jn21g29lzo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">special halo brace was screwed into his head and neck<\/a> to prevent the threat of paralysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newton was part of Anthony Murray&#8217;s coaching staff in 2025 and he had the goal of returning to action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But after receiving advice from two specialists, the 33-year-old has had to end his playing career and will now take on a new role as the club&#8217;s strength and conditioning coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitehaven hooker James Newton has been forced to retire from rugby league because of a serious neck injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-279350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}