{"id":425284,"date":"2026-02-14T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425284\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:29:09","slug":"wakefield-trinity-star-undergoes-operation-as-daryl-powell-explains-trios-injury-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425284\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakefield Trinity star undergoes operation as Daryl Powell explains trio’s injury status"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Wakefield Trinity head coach Daryl Powell has confirmed that star man Tom Johnstone has undergone a minor operation with the winger set to be sidelined for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

Johnstone played through the pain to feature for England in the Ashes with the winger requiring surgery after the series on a hernia, something he rehabbed over pre-season with Powell claiming that the 30-year-old was \u2018flying\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, a slight tear was discovered in the winger\u2019s knee cartilage, with Trinity ultimately opting for the Englishman to go under the knife as opposed to have him through the pain again.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Radio Leeds<\/a> ahead of the club\u2019s Super League opener against Toulouse Olympique, Powell confirmed the reason behind Johnstone\u2019s omission from the 21-man squad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He explained: \u201cTom (Johnstone) was flying actually and then his knee, he\u2019s got a slight tear in his cartilage that we were wondering do we try and push him through it or do we just get it done?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a jab in there which didn\u2019t work and then we decided to just get it done, so he\u2019s had a minor operation on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s probably two or three weeks, he\u2019s not too far away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the Serious About Rugby League team\u2019s season-long predictions, including Super League Grand Final winner, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wakefield Trinity pair set for round two return<\/p>\n

Johnstone was among three high-profile names who were not named in that 21-man squad with outside back Oliver Pratt and prop Ky Rodwell the other two, however, they\u2019re in line for a round two return.<\/p>\n

On the pair, Powell said: \u201cPratty (Oliver Pratt) slipped in training a couple of weeks back and got a really bad dead leg. We scanned him and he\u2019s okay but it just swelled up straight away, but it was just a pure accident in training.<\/p>\n

\u201cKy Rodwell had an operation and both those two will be available for next week so they\u2019re not long termers.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his squad, Daryl Powell explained that two of the club\u2019s forwards have seen their partners in the late stages of pregnancy recently with signing Tray Lolesio\u2019s child being born, and Isaiah Vagana still awaiting the birth of his.<\/p>\n

That could lead to a scenario similar to what happened to Matty Lees in 2025 when the St Helens man had to be subbed at half-time as his partner went into labour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Powell said: \u201cTray (Lolesio) and Isaiah (Vagana) have both been expecting babies. Tray\u2019s baby has come, Isaiah\u2019s hasn\u2019t yet so it\u2019s one of those.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was talking to Isaiah about it last week saying how I\u2019ve seen pretty much everything so nothing is going to surprise me.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s trained today and we\u2019re all good and ready to go. We\u2019ll wait and see and be flexible around it, let\u2019s just see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for how that could affect selection, Powell said:\u00a0\u201cThere are plenty of players putting their hand up to play and a lot of players have had great pre-seasons. I think it\u2019s an outstanding squad and I\u2019m just looking forward to getting out there now and playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BIG Super League preview with every team covered and predictions made \u2013 Click here to watch the latest episode of The Serious About Rugby League Show<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wakefield Trinity head coach Daryl Powell has confirmed that star man Tom Johnstone has undergone a minor operation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-425284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425284","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=425284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}